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T.
T (?), the twentieth letter of the English
alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h
it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct
sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to
Pronunciation,
The letter derives its name and form from the Latin, the form of
the Latin letter being further derived through the Greek from the
Phoenician. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. It is
etymologically most nearly related to d, s,
th; as in tug, duke;
two, dual, L. duo;
resin, L. resina, Gr. "rhti`nh,
tent, tense, a., tenuous,
thin; nostril, thrill. See
D, S.
T bandage (Surg.), a bandage shaped
like the letter T, and used
principally for application to the groin, or perineum. --
T cart, a kind of fashionable two seated wagon for
pleasure driving. -- T iron. (a) A
rod with a short crosspiece at the end, -- used as a hook.
(b) Iron in bars, having a cross section formed like
the letter T, -- used in
structures. -- T rail, a kind of rail for
railroad tracks, having no flange at the bottom so that a section
resembles the letter T. -- T
square, a ruler having a crosspiece or head at one end,
for the purpose of making parallel lines; -- so called from its
shape. It is laid on a drawing board and guided by the
crosspiece, which is pressed against the straight edge of the
board. Sometimes the head is arranged to be set at different
angles. -- To a T, exactly, perfectly;
as, to suit to a T.
[Colloq.]
Ta (?), v. t. To take.
[Obs. or Scot.]
Cursor Mundi.
Taas (?), n. A heap. See
Tas. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Tab (?), n. [Etymol.
uncertain.] 1. The flap or latchet of a shoe
fastened with a string or a buckle.
2. A tag. See Tag, 2.
3. A loop for pulling or lifting something.
4. A border of lace or other material, worn on the
inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
5. A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp.,
one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or
border.
Ta*bac"co (?), n.
Tobacco. [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
\'d8Ta*ba"nus (?), n. [L.,
horsefly.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of blood
sucking flies, including the horseflies.
Tab"ard (?), n. [OE.
tabard, tabart; cf. Sp. & Pg.
tabardo, It. tabarro, W. tabar,
LGr. tabardum.] A sort of tunic or
mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn
over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the
wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted
for heralds. [Spelt also taberd.]
In a tabard he [the Plowman] rode upon a mare.
Chaucer.
Tab"ard*er (?), n. 1.
One who wears a tabard.
2. A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College,
Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard.
Nares.
Tab"a*ret (?), n. [Cf.
Tabby.] A stout silk having satin stripes, --
used for furniture.
Tab`a*sheer" (?), n. [Per.
tab\'besh\'c6r: cf. Skr. tvakksh\'c6r\'be,
tvaksh\'c6r\'be.] A concretion in the
joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure
silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for
the cure of bilions vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various
other diseases.
Tab"bi*net (?), n. [Cf.
Tabby.] A fabric like poplin, with a watered
surface. [Written also tabinet.]
Tab"by (?), n.; pl.
Tabbies (#). [F. tabis
(cf. It. tab\'8d, Sp. & Pg. tab\'a1, LL.
attabi), fr. Ar. 'att\'beb\'c6, properly
the name of a quarter of Bagdad where it was made, the quarter
being named from the prince Attab, great grandson of
Omeyya. Cf. Tobine.] 1. A kind of
waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured
like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to
it by calendering.
2. A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or
stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water.
When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
Weale.
3. A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
4. An old maid or gossip.
[Colloq.]
Byron.
Tab"by (?), a. 1.
Having a wavy or watered appearance; as a tabby
waistcoar.
Pepys.
2. Brindled; diversified in color; as, a
tabby cat.
Tabby moth (Zo\'94l.), the grease
moth. See under Grease.
Tab"by, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tabbied (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tabbying (?).] To
water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to
calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon,
etc.
Tab`e*fac"tion (?), n. [See
Tabefy.] A wasting away; a gradual losing of
flesh by disease.
Tab"e*fy (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tabefied
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabefying
(?).] [L. tabere to waste
away + -fy: cf. L. tabefacere to
melt.] To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate.
[R.]
Harvey.
Ta*bel"lion (?), n. [L.
tabellio, fr. tabella a tablet, a writing,
document, dim. of tabula a board: cf. F.
tabellion. See Table.] A secretary
or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in
France during the old monarchy.
Ta"ber (?), v. i. Same as
Tabor.
Nahum ii.
Tab"erd (?), n. See
Tabard.
Tab"er*na*cle (?), n. [F., fr.
L. tabernaculum, dim. of taberna nut. See
Tabern.] 1. A slightly built or
temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
Dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob.
Heb. xi. 9.
Orange trees planted in the ground, and secured in winter with
a wooden tabernacle and stoves.
Evelyn.
2. (Jewish Antiq.) A portable structure
of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried
through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of
sacrifice and worship.
Ex. xxvi.
3. Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other
place for worship.
Acts xv. 16.
4. Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary
abode of the soul.
Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle.
2 Pet. i. 14.
5. Any small cell, or like place, in which some
holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
Specifically: --
(a) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for
the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or
movable.
(b) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any
sacred painting or sculpture.
(c) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having
a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on
a bracket, or the like.
(d) A tryptich for sacred imagery.
(e) A seat or stall in a choir, with its
canopy.
6. (Naut.) A boxlike step for a mast
with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass
under bridges, etc.
Feast of Tabernacles (Jewish Antiq.),
one of the three principal festivals of the Jews, lasting
seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths formed of the
boughs of trees, in commemoration of the habitation of their
ancestors in similar dwellings during their pilgrimage in the
wilderness. -- Tabernacle work, rich canopy
work like that over the head of niches, used over seats or
stalls, or over sepulchral monuments. Oxf.
Gloss.
Tab"er*na*cle, v. i. [imp. &
p. p. Tabernacled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tabernacling (?).] To
dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
He assumed our nature, and tabernacled among us in
the flesh.
Dr. J. Scott.
Tab`er*nac"u*lar (?), a. 1.
Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish
tabernacle.
2. Formed in latticework; latticed.
T. Warton.
3. Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence,
common; low. \'bdHorribly tabernacular.\'b8
De Quincey.
\'d8Ta"bes (?), n. [L., a
wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive
emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no
well-marked logical symptoms.
\'d8Tabes dorsalis ( [NL., tabes
of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called
simply tabes. -- \'d8Tabes mesenterica
( [NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting
disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the
lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous
degeneration.
Ta*bes"cent (?), a. [L.
tabescens wasting, p.pr. of
tabescere.] Withering, or wasting
away.
Ta*bet"ic (?), a. (Med.)
Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected
with tabes; tabid. -- n. One affected
with tabes.
Tab"id (?), a. [L.
tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See
Tabes.] (Med.) Affected by tabes;
tabetic.
In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative.
Arbuthnot.
-- Tab"id*ly, adv. --
Tab"id*ness, n.
{ Ta*bif"ic (?), Ta*bif"ic*al
(?), } a. [Tabes + L.
facere to make.] (Med.)
Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.
Tab"inet (?), n. See
Tabbinet.
Thackeray.
Tab"la*ture (?), n. [Cf. F.
tablature ancient mode of musical notation. See
Table.] 1. (Paint.) A
painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one
view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in
general.
Shaftesbury.
2. (Mus.) An ancient mode of indicating
musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by
notes.
The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to
that of Sir Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of
compositions from the tablature before him as if he
had fingered an organ.
Evelyn.
3. (Anat.) Division into plates or
tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of
the cranial bones.
Ta"ble (?), n. [F., fr. L.
tabula a board, tablet, a painting. Cf.
Tabular, Taffrail, Tavern.]
1. A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a
board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble.
Sandys.
2. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or
other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or
painted; a tablet; pl. a memorandum
book. \'bdThe names . . . written on his
tables.\'b8
Chaucer.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables
of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these
tables the words that were in the first
tables, which thou brakest.
Ex. xxxiv. 1.
And stand there with your tables to glean
The golden sentences.
Beau. & Fl.
3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an
inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.
\'bdPainted in a table plain.\'b8
Spenser.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that
other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most
incomparable table.
Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a
poor peasant.
Addison.
4. Hence, in a great variety of applications: A
condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a
single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the
presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme;
a schedule. Specifically: --
(a) (Bibliog.) A view of the contents of
a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index;
a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of
contents.
(b) (Chem.) A list of substances and
their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances
with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
<-- periodic table -->
(c) (Mach.) Any collection and
arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values,
for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific
gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law,
and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other
numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are
taken out for use in computations; as, tables of
logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity
tables; interest tables; astronomical
tables, etc.
(d) (Palmistry) The arrangement or
disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the
hand.
Mistress of a fairer table
Hath not history for fable.
B. Jonson.
5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat
slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed
horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes,
as in eating, writing, or working.
We may again
Give to our tables meat.
Shak.
The nymph the table spread.
Pope.
6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of;
fare; entertainment; as, to set a good
table.
7. The company assembled round a table.
I drink the general joy of the whole table.
Shak.
8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and
internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diplo\'89, in the
walls of the cranium.
9. (Arch.) A stringcourse which includes
an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an
offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water
table.
10. (Games) (a) The board on
the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are
played. (b) One of the divisions of a
backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand
table. (c) pl. The
games of backgammon and of draughts. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice.
Shak.
11. (Glass Manuf.) A circular plate of
crown glass.
A circular plate or table of about five feet
diameter weighs on an average nine pounds.
Ure.
12. (Jewelry) The upper flat surface of
a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in
angles.
13. (Persp.) A plane surface, supposed
to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called
also perspective plane.
14. (Mach.) The part of a machine tool
on which the work rests and is fastened.
Bench table, Card table,
Communion table, Lord's table,
etc. See under Bench, Card, etc. --
Raised table (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised
or projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to
the projection, and usually rectangular, -- especially intended
to receive an inscription or the like. -- Roller
table (Horology), a flat disk on the arbor
of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in and
out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement.
-- Round table. See Dictionary of Noted Names in
Fiction. -- Table anvil, a small anvil to be
fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs. --
Table base. (Arch.) Same as Water
table. -- Table bed, a bed in the form
of a table. -- Table beer, beer for table, or
for common use; small beer. -- Table bell, a
small bell to be used at table for calling servants. --
Table cover, a cloth for covering a table,
especially at other than mealtimes. -- Table
diamond, a thin diamond cut with a flat upper
surface. -- Table linen, linen tablecloth,
napkins, and the like. -- Table money (Mil.
or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers over
and above their pay, for table expenses. -- Table
rent (O. Eng. Law), rent paid to a bishop or
religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping.
Burrill. -- Table shore
(Naut.), a low, level shore. -- Table
talk, conversation at table, or at meals. --
Table talker, one who talks at table. --
Table tipping, Table turning,
certain movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the
agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of
latent vital or spriritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to
the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects
moved, or to physical force applied otherwise. --
Tables of a girder chord
(Engin.), the upper and lower horizontal
members. -- To lay on the table, in
parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the
table of the presiding officer, -- that is, to postpone the
consideration of, by a vote. -- To serve tables
(Script.), to provide for the poor, or to
distribute provisions for their wants. Acts vi. 2.
-- To turn the tables, to change the condition or
fortune of contending parties; -- a metaphorical expression taken
from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. -- Twelve
tables (Rom. Antiq.), a celebrated body of
Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before
Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been
sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions.
They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions
of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated
to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and
mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings.
Burrill.
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Ta"ble (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tableed
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tableing
(?).] 1. To form into a table
or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table
fines.
2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in
a picture. [Obs.]
Tabled and pictured in the chambers of
meditation.
Bacon.
3. To supply with food; to feed.
[Obs.]
Milton.
4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of
timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the
middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
5. To lay or place on a table, as money.
Carlyle.
6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to
postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion,
or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
7. To enter upon the docket; as, to
table charges against some one.
8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the
skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the
part attached to the boltrope.
Ta"ble, v. i. To live at the table of
another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] \'bdHe . . .
was driven from the society of men to table with the
beasts.\'b8
South.
\'d8Ta`bleau" (?), n.; pl.
Tableaux (#). [F., dim. fr. L.
tabula a painting. See Table.]
1. A striking and vivid representation; a
picture.
2. A representation of some scene by means of
persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate
postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
\'d8Ta`bleau" vi`vant" (?); pl.
Tableaux vivants (#). [F.]
Same as Tableau, n., 2.
Ta"ble*book` (?), n. A tablet;
a notebook.
Put into your tablebook whatever you judge
worthly.
Dryden.
Ta"ble*cloth` (?), n. A cloth
for covering a table, especially one with which a table is
covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
\'d8Ta"ble d'h\'93te" (?); pl. Tables
d'h\'93te (#). [F., literally, table of
the landlord.] A common table for guests at a hotel;
an ordinary.
Ta"ble-land` (?), n. A broad,
level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
The toppling crags of Duty scaled,
Are close upon the shining table-lands
To which our God himself is moon and sun.
Tennyson.
Ta"ble*man (?), n.; pl.
Tablemen (. A man at draughts;
a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table,
n., 10. [R.]
Bacon.
Ta"ble*ment (?), n.
(Arch.) A table. [Obs.]
Tablements and chapters of pillars.
Holland.
Ta"bler (?), n. 1. One
who boards. [Obs.]
2. One who boards others for hire.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Ta"ble*spoon` (?), n. A spoon
of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished
from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
Ta"ble*spoon`ful (?), n.; pl.
Tablespoonfuls (. As much as a
tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually
reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
Ta"blet (?), n. [F.
tablette, dim. of table. See
Table.] 1. A small table or flat
surface.
2. A flat piece of any material on which to write,
paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an
inscription or a picture.
3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
[Obs.]
4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum
book.
5. A flattish cake or piece; as,
tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative
against the plague.
6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or
confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and
usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also
lozenge, and troche,
especially when of a round or rounded form.
Ta"ble*ware` (?), n. Ware, or
articles collectively, for table use.
Ta"bling (?), n. 1. A
forming into tables; a setting down in order.
2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber
into another by alternate scores or projections, as in
shipbuilding.
3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a
sail.
Totten.
4. Board; support. [Obs.]
Trence in English (1614).
5. Act of playing at tables. See Table,
n., 10. [Obs.]
Tabling house, a gambling house.
[Obs.] Northbrooke.
Ta*boo" (?), n. A total
prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given
person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious
origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of
Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also
tabu.]
Ta*boo", v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tabooed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tabooing.] To put under taboo;
to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or
use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a
sanctuary for criminals. [Written also
tabu.]
Ta"bor (?), n. [OF.
tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf.
Pr. tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Pg.
tambor, atambor, It. tamburo;
all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb a kind of lute, or giutar,
or Per. tab\'c6r a drum. Cf. Tabouret,
Tambour.] (Mus.) A small drum used
as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the
same person. [Written also tabour, and
taber.]
Ta"bor, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tabored (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Taboring.] [Cf. OF.
taborer.] [Written also
tabour.] 1. To play on a tabor,
or little drum.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.
Ta"bor, v. t. To make (a sound) with a
tabor.
Ta"bor*er (?), n. One who plays
on the tabor.
Shak.
Tab"o*ret (?), n. [Dim. of
tabor. Cf. Tabret.] (Mus.)
A small tabor. [Written also
tabouret.]
Tab"o*rine (?), n. [OF.
tabourin, F. tambourin. See Tabor,
and cf. Tambourine.] (Mus.) A
small, shallow drum; a tabor.
Ta"bor*ite (?), n. (Eccl.
Hist.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered
persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from
Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a
part of their struggles.
Ta"bour (?), n. & v. See
Tabor.
Tab"ou*ret (?), n. [F., dim. of
OF. tabor, tabour, drum. See
Tabor.] 1. Same as
Taboret.
2. A seat without arms or back, cushioned and
stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a
drum.
3. An embroidery frame.
Knight.
Right of the tabouret, the privilege of
sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly
granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French
court.
Tab"rere (?), n. A
taborer. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Tab"ret (?), n. A
taboret.
Young.
Ta*bu" (?), n. & v. See
Taboo.
\'d8Tab"u*la (?), n.; pl.
Tabul\'91 (#). [L.]
1. A table; a tablet.
2. (Zo\'94l.) One of the transverse
plants found in the calicles of certain corals and
hydroids.
Tabula rasa ( [L.], a
smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest
state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used
by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to
the doctrine of innate ideas.
Tab"u*lar (?), a. [L.
tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See
Table.] Having the form of, or pertaining to,
a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: --
(a) Having a flat surface; as, a
tabular rock.
(b) Formed into a succession of flakes;
laminated.
Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.
Woodward.
(c) Set in squares. [R.]
(d) Arranged in a schedule; as,
tabular statistics.
(e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of
tables; as, tabular right ascension.
Tabular difference (Math.), the
difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes
printed in its proper place in the table. -- Tabular
spar (Min.), wollastonite.
Tab`u*lar*i*za"tion (?), n. The
act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation
into tables; tabulation.
Tab"u*lar*ize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tabularized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabularizing
(?).] To tabulate.
\'d8Tab`u*la"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored.]
(Zo\'94l.) An artificial group of stony corals
including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The
genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
<-- ## note that Pocillopora is italicised but not listed
separately in this dictionary. Favosites is not italicised, and
has an entry as a headword. Is that the difference between
italicisation or not for genus names? -->
Tab"u*late (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tabulated
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tabulating.] [L. tabula a
table. See Tabular.] 1. To form into
a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may
be tabulated, and put in figures.
I. Taylor.
2. To shape with a flat surface.
Tab`u*la"tion (?), n. The act
of forming into a table or tables; as, the
tabulation of statistics.
Tac (?), n. [Cf. Tack,
n., 4.] (O. Eng. Law) A kind of
customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old
records.
Cowell. Burrill.
{ Tac"a*ma*hac` (?),
Tac`a*ma*ha"ca (?), } n.
1. A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical
American trees of the genus Elaphrium (E.
tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from
East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the
resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.
2. (Bot.) Any tree yielding tacamahac
resin, especially, in North America, the balsam poplar, or balm
of Gilead (Populus balsamifera).
Ta*caud" (?), n. [Cf. F.
tacaud. See Tomcod.]
(Zo\'94l.) The bib, or whiting pout.
[Prov. Eng.]
Tace (?), n. The cross, or
church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under
Cross, n.
Mollett.
Tace, n. See Tasse.
Fairholt.
\'d8Ta"cet (?), v.impers. [L.,
it is silent, 3d pers.pr. of tacere to be
silent.] (Mus.) It is silent; -- a
direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a
whole movement.
Tache (?), n. [See
Tack a kind of nail.] Something used for
taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
[Obs.]
Ex. xxvi. 6.
Tache, n. [F. tache spot. See
Techy.] A spot, stain, or blemish.
[Obs.]
Warner.
Tach*hy"drite (?), n. [Gr.
(Min.) A hydrous chloride of calcium and
magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce
upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.
\'d8Tach"i*na (?), n.; pl.
Tachin\'91 (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of
numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and
allied genera. Their larv\'91 are external parasites of other
insects.
Ta*chom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. -meter: cf. F.
tachom\'8atre.] An instrument for measuring
the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving
body or substance. Specifically: --
(a) An instrument for measuring the velocity of
running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with
inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of
the wheel are recorded by clockwork.
(b) An instrument for showing at any moment the
speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving
conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of
which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the
speed on a graduated dial.
(c) (Physiol.) An instrument for
measuring the velocity of the blood; a h\'91matachometer.
Tach"y*di*dax`y (?), n. [Gr.
A short or rapid method of
instructing. [R.]
\'d8Tach`y*glos"sa (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A division of monotremes which
comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See
Illust. under Echidna.
{ Tach`y*graph"ic (?),
Tach`y*graph"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. tachygraphique.] Of or
pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.
Ta*chyg"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. -graphy: cf. F.
tachygraphie.] The art or practice of rapid
writing; shorthand writing; stenography.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
Tach"y*lyte (?), n. [Gr. (Min.) A vitreous
form of basalt; -- so called because decompposable by acids and
readily fusible.
Tac"it (?), a. [L.
tacitus, p.p. of tacere to be silent, to
pass over in silence; akin to Goth. to be
silent, Icel. , OHG. dag\'c7n: cf.
F. tacite. Cf. Reticent.] Done or
made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as,
tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not
interposing an objection. --
Tac"it*ly, adv.
The tacit and secret theft of abusing our brother
in civil contracts.
Jer. Taylor.
Tac"i*turn (?), a. [L.
taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See
Tacit.] Habitually silent; not given to
converse; not apt to talk or speak. --
Tac"i*turn*ly, adv.
Syn. -- Silent; reserved. Taciturn,
Silent. Silent has reference to the act;
taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent
from circumstances; he is taciturn from disposition.
The loquacious man is at times silent; one who is
taciturn may now and then make an effort at
conversation.
Tac`i*tur"ni*ty (?), n. [L.
taciturnitas: cf. F. taciturnit\'82.]
Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking.
The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural
diffidence in the company of strangers.
V. Knox.
The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so
much offense.
Macaulay.
Tack (?), n. [From an old or
dialectal form of F. tache. See Techy.]
1. A stain; a tache. [Obs.]
2. [Cf. L. tactus.] A
peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty
tack. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Drayton.
Tack, n. [OE. tak,
takke, a fastening; akin to D. tak a
branch, twig, G. zacke a twig, prong, spike, Dan.
takke a tack, spike; cf. also Sw. tagg
prickle, point, Icel. t\'beg a willow twig, Ir.
taca a peg, nail, fastening, Gael. tacaid,
Armor. & Corn. tach; perhaps akin to E.
take. Cf. Attach, Attack,
Detach, Tag an end, Zigzag.]
1. A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually
having a broad, flat head.
2. That which is attached; a supplement; an
appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
Macaulay.
Some tacks had been made to money bills in King
Charles's time.
Bp. Burnet.
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3. (Naut.) (a) A rope used to
hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the
vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship);
also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail
to the boom. (b) The part of a sail to which
the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of
fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of
Sail). (c) The direction of a vessel
in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard
tack, or port tack; -- the former when she
is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the
run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
4. (Scots Law) A contract by which the
use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
Burrill.
5. Confidence; reliance. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
Tack of a flag (Naut.), a line
spliced into the eye at the foot of the hoist for securing the
flag to the halyards. -- Tack pins
(Naut.), belaying pins; -- also called
jack pins. -- To haul the tacks
aboard (Naut.), to set the courses. --
To hold tack, to last or hold out.
Milton.
Tack (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tacked (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Tacking.]
[Cf. OD. tacken to touch, take, seize, fix, akin
to E. take. See Tack a small nail.]
1. To fasten or attach. \'bdIn hopes of
getting some commendam tacked to their sees.\'b8
Swift.
And tacks the center to the sphere.
Herbert.
2. Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or
hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to
tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one
piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or
shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops
of solder.
3. In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to
a bill; to append; -- often with on or
to.
Macaulay.
4. (Naut.) To change the direction of (a
vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and
shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward
nearly at right angles to her former course.
Tack, v. i. (Naut.) To change
the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm
and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction
changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See
Tack, v. t., 4.
Monk, . . . when he wanted his ship to tack to
larboard, moved the mirth of his crew by calling out, \'bdWheel
to the left.\'b8
Macaulay.
Tack"er (?), n. One who
tacks.
Tack"et (?), n. [Dim. of
tack a small nail.] A small, broad-headed
nail. [Scot.]
Jamieson.
Tack"ey (?), a. & n. See
Tacky.
Tack"ing, n. (Law) A union of
securities given at different times, all of which must be
redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his
claim.
Bouvier.
tacking is not recognized
in American law.
Kent.
Tac"kle (?; sometimes improperly pronounced ?,
especially by seamen), n. [OE.
takel, akin to LG. & D. takel, Dan.
takkel, Sw. tackel; perhaps akin to E.
taw, v.t., or to take.] 1.
Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting
of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments,
as distinct from the block.
2. Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which
an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing
tackle, hunting tackle; formerly,
specifically, weapons. \'bdShe to her tackle
fell.\'b8
Hudibras.
3. (Naut.) The rigging and apparatus of
a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is
used.
Fall and tackle. See the Note under
Pulley. -- Fishing tackle. See under
Fishing, a. -- Ground tackle
(Naut.), anchors, cables, etc. -- Gun
tackle, the apparatus or appliances for hauling cannon
in or out. -- Tackle fall, the rope, or
rather the end of the rope, of a tackle, to which the power is
applied. -- Tack tackle (Naut.), a
small tackle to pull down the tacks of the principal sails.
-- Tackle board, Tackle post
(Ropemaking), a board, frame, or post, at the end
of a ropewalk, for supporting the spindels, or whirls, for
twisting the yarns.
Tac"kle, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tackled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tackling.] [Cf. LG.
takeln to equip. See Tackle,
n.] 1. To supply with
tackle.
Beau. & Fl.
2. To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to
harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or
wagon. [Colloq.]
3. To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a
wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles
the game.
The greatest poetess of our day has wasted her time and
strength in tackling windmills under conditions the
most fitted to insure her defeat.
Dublin Univ. Mag.
<-- 4. (Football) To cause the ball carrier to fall to the
ground, thus ending the forward motion of the ball.
5. To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the
problem. -->
Tac"kled (?), a. Made of ropes
tacked together.
My man shall be with thee,
And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair.
Shak.
Tac"kling, n. (Naut.) 1.
Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage,
sails, etc.
2. Instruments of action; as, fishing
tackling.
Walton.
3. The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by
which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.
Tacks"man (?), n.; pl.
Tacksmen (. (Scots Law)
One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or
lessee.
Sir W. Scott.
The tacksmen, who formed what may be called the
\'bdpeerage\'b8 of the little community, must be the
captains.
Macaulay.
Tack"y (?), a. [Cf.
Techy, Tack a spot.] Sticky;
adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well
dried. [U. S.]
<-- 2. In poor taste; appearing cheap; gaudy; unstylish. Broadly
used to describe objects whose style is disapproved of by the
speaker.
3. Tactless; in poor taste; -- used to describe behavior.
-->
Ta*con"ic (?), a. (Geol.)
Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming
the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They
were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later
proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
Tact (?), n. [L.
tactus a touching, touch, fr. tangere,
tactum, to touch: cf. F. tact. See
Tangent.] 1. The sense of touch;
feeling.
Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to
tact as well as sight?
Southey.
Now, sight is a very refined tact.
J. Le Conte.
2. (Mus.) The stroke in beating
time.
3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or
faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of
appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to
those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a
tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.
Macaulay.
A tact which surpassed the tact of her
sex as much as the tact of her sex surpassed the
tact of ours.
Macaulay.
Tac"ta*ble (?), a. Capable of
being touched; tangible. [R.] \'bdThey [women]
being created to be both tractable and tactable.\'b8
Massinger.
{ Tac"tic (?), Tac"tic*al
(?), } a. [Gr. tactics.] Of or pertaining to the art of
military and naval tactics. --
Tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
Tac"tic (?), n. See
Tactics.
Tac*ti"cian (?), n. [Cf. F.
tacticien.] One versed in tactics; hence, a
skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
<-- as, a skilled parliamentary tactician. -->
Tac"tics (?), n. [Gr. tactique.] 1. The science and art
of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and
performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into
grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and
elementary tactics, or the tactics of
instruction.
2. Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Tac"tile (?), a. [L.
tactilis, fr. tangere, tactum,
to touch: cf. F. tactile.] Of or pertaining
to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or
perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as,
tactile corpuscles; tactile
sensations. \'bdTactile sweets.\'b8
Beaumont. \'bdTactile qualities.\'b8 Sir
M. Hale.
Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense
of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch.
The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on
different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead,
temples and back of the forearm.
H. N. Martin.
Tac*til"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F.
tactilit\'82.] The quality or state of
being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
Tac"tion (?), n. [L.
tactio, from tangere, tactum, to
touch.] The act of touching; touch; contact;
tangency. \'bdExternal taction.\'b8
Chesterfield.
Tact"less (?), a. Destitute of
tact.
Tac"tu*al (?), a. [See
Tact.] (Physiol.) Of or pertaining
to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual
sense diffused over the entire body.
Tyndall.
Tad"pole` (?), n. [OE.
tadde toad (AS. t\'bedie,
t\'bedige) + poll; properly, a toad that is
or seems all head. See Toad, and Poll.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) The young aquatic larva of
any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or
internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike
tail. Called also polliwig,
polliwog, porwiggle, or
purwiggy.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The hooded
merganser. [Local, U.S.]
Tadpole fish. (Zo\'94l.) See
Forkbeard (a).
\'d8T\'91"di*um (?), n.
[L.] See Tedium.
Tael (?), n. [Malay
ta, a certain weight, probably fr. Hind.
tola, Skr. tul\'be a balance, weight,
tul to weigh.] A denomination of money, in
China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and
forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
[Written also tale.]
{ Taen (?), Ta'en },
p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction
of Taken. [Poetic & Scot.]
Burns.
\'d8T\'91"ni*a (?), n.; pl.
T\'91ni\'91 (#). [L., a ribbon, a
tapeworm.] 1. (Zo\'94l.) A genus
of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man.
See Tapeworm.
2. (Anat.) A band; a structural line; --
applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the
brain.
3. (Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the
bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the
architrave.
\'d8T\'91*ni"a*da (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as
T\'91nioidea.
\'d8T\'91`ni*a"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. taenia a ribbon.]
(Zo\'94l.) A division of Ctenophora including
those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is
the most familiar example.
\'d8T\'91*nid"i*um (?), n.; pl.
T\'91nidia (#). [NL., dim. fr. L.
taenia a ribbon.] (Zo\'94l.) The
chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the trache\'91 of
insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
\'d8T\'91`ni*o*glos"sa (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) An extensive division of gastropod
mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually
bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families
both marine and fresh-water.
T\'91`ni*o*glos"sate (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
T\'91nioglossa.
T\'91"ni*oid (?), a.
[T\'91nia + -oid.] 1.
Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Like or pertaining to
T\'91nia.
\'d8T\'91`ni*oi"de*a (?), n. pl.
(Zo\'94l.) The division of cestode worms which
comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.
\'d8T\'91*ni"o*la (?), n.; pl.
T\'91niol\'91 (#). [L., dim. of
taenia a ribbon.] (Zo\'94l.) One
of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of
certain medus\'91.
\'d8T\'91`ni*o*so"mi (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) An order of fishes remarkable for
their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples.
See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.
Taf"fer*er (?), n.
(Naut.) See Taffrail.
{ Taf"fe*ta (?), Taf"fe*ty
(?), } n. [F. taffetas,
It. taffet\'85, from Per. t\'beftah,
originally, twisted, woven, from t\'beftan to twist,
to spin.] A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually
the wavy luster called watering. The term has also
been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th
century to modern times.
Lined with taffeta and with sendal.
Chaucer.
Taff"rail (?), n. [D.
tafereel a panel, picture, fr. tafel table,
fr. L. tabula. See Table.]
(Naut.) The upper part of a ship's stern, which
is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with
carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
[Written also tafferel.]
Taf"fy (?), n. [Prov. E.
taffy toffy.] 1. A kind of candy
made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in
shallow pans. [Written also, in England,
toffy.]
2. Flattery; soft phrases.
[Slang]
Taf"i*a (?), n. [Cf. F. & Sp.
tafia, It. taffia; fr. Malay
t\'bef\'c6a a spirit distilled from molasses. Cf.
Ratafia.] A variety of rum. [West
Indies]
Tag (?), n. [Probably akin to
tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle,
point, tooth.] 1. Any slight appendage, as to
an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely;
specifically, a direction card, or label.
2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end
of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech;
cue.
4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
[Obs.]
Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble.
Holinshed.
5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
<-- Tag sale. [From the price tag usually attached to each item]
A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing,
household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small
group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail
establishment. Frequently it is held in the private
home or in a yard attached to a private home belonging to the
seller. Similar to a yard sale or garage sale. Compare flea
market, where used items are sold by many individuals in a place
rented for the purpose. -->
Tag, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tagging (?).] 1. To
fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
Macaulay.
His courteous host . . .
Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
Dryden.
2. To join; to fasten; to attach.
Bolingbroke.
3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and
touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
Tag, v. i. To follow closely, as it were
an appendage; -- often with after; as, to
tag after a person.
Tag, n. [From Tag,
v.; cf. Tag, an end.] A child's
play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs
away to avoid being touched.
Tag"belt` (?), n. (Far.)
Same as Tagsore. [Obs.]
Tag"ger (?), n. 1. One
who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.
2. That which is pointed like a tag.
Hedgehogs' or procupines' small taggers.
Cotton.
3. pl. Sheets of tin or other plate
which run below the gauge.
Knight.
4. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
Knight.
<-- [Colloq.] One who spray-paints a distinctive logo on a wall
or other property not his own. -->
Tag"let (?), n. A little
tag.
\'d8Tagl"ia (?), n. [It., a
cutting, a pulley, from tagliare to cut. See
Tailor.] (Mech.) A peculiar
combination of pulleys.
Brande & C.
Tagl`ia*co"tain (?), a.
(Surg.) Of or pertaining to
Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the
Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty
described by him. [Also Taliacotian,
and Tagliacozzian.]
Tagl*io"ni (?), n. A kind of
outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a
celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.
He ought certainly to exchange his taglioni, or
comfortable greatcoat, for a cuirass of steel.
Sir W. Scott.
Tag"lock` (?), n. An entangled
lock, as of hair or wool.
Nares.
Tag"ni*cate (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The white-lipped peccary.
Tag"-rag` (?), n. & a. [See
Tag an end, and Rag.] The lowest
class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag,
and bobtail, under Bobtail.
If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss
him, I am no true man.
Shak.
Tag"sore` (?), n. (Far.)
Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation
produced by contact with the feces; -- called also
tagbelt. [Obs.]
Tag"tail` (?), n. 1. A
worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.
2. A person who attaches himself to another against
the will of the latter; a hanger-on.
Tag"u*an (?), n. [From the
native name in the East Indies.] (Zo\'94l.)
A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista).
Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as
long.
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Ta`gui*ca"ti (?), n. [From the
native name.] (Zo\'94l.) The white-lipped
peccary.
Ta"ha (?), n. The African
rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).
Ta*ha"leb (?), n. [From the
native name.] (Zo\'94l.) A fox (Vulpes
Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
Ta*hi"ti*an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. --
n. A native inhabitant of
Tahiti.
Tahr (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
Same as Thar.
Tail (?), n. [F.
taille a cutting. See Entail,
Tally.] (Law) Limitation;
abridgment.
Burrill.
Estate in tail, a limited, abridged, or
reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which
the other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate
tail. Blackstone.
Tail, a. (Law) Limited;
abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate
tail.
Tail, n. [AS. t\'91gel,
t\'91gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel.
tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl
hair. \'fb59.] 1. (Zo\'94l.) The
terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an
animal.
tail is more particularly applied. The tail of
fishes consists of the tapering hind portion of the body ending
in a caudal fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to
the entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes to
the terminal piece or pygidium alone.
2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever
resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a
catkin.
Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those
tails that hang on willow trees.
Harvey.
3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part
of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the
superior part.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the
tail.
Deut. xxviii. 13.
4. A train or company of attendants; a
retinue.
\'bdAh,\'b8 said he, \'bdif you saw but the chief with his
tail on.\'b8
Sir W. Scott.
5. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears
the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in
the expression \'bdheads or tails,\'b8 employed when a coin is
thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its
fall.
6. (Anat.) The distal tendon of a
muscle.
7. (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage
to certain achens. It is formed of the permanent elongated
style.
8. (Surg.) (a) A portion of an
incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the
whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete
incision; -- called also tailing.
(b) One of the strips at the end of a bandage
formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
9. (Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap
of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
10. (Mus.) The part of a note which runs
perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
Moore (Encyc. of Music).
11. pl. Same as Tailing,
4.
12. (Arch.) The bottom or lower portion
of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
13. pl. (Mining) See
Tailing, n., 5.
Tail beam. (Arch.) Same as
Tailpiece. -- Tail coverts
(Zo\'94l.), the feathers which cover the bases of
the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than the quills,
and form elegant plumes. Those above the quills are called the
upper tail coverts, and those below, the
under tail coverts. -- Tail end,
the latter end; the termination; as, the tail
end of a contest. [Colloq.] --
Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as
Tailpiece. -- Tail of a comet
(Astron.), a luminous train extending from the
nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a
direction opposite to the sun. -- Tail of a gale
(Naut.), the latter part of it, when the wind has
greatly abated. Totten. -- Tail of a
lock (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance into the
lower pond. -- Tail of the trenches
(Fort.), the post where the besiegers begin to
break ground, and cover themselves from the fire of the place, in
advancing the lines of approach. -- Tail spindle,
the spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called
also dead spindle. -- To turn
tail, to run away; to flee.
Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out
another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch.
Sir P. Sidney.
Tail, v. t. 1. To follow or
hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which
can not be evaded. [Obs.]
Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was
tailed, continued uncanceled, and was called on the
next Parliament.
Fuller.
2. To pull or draw by the tail.
[R.]
Hudibras.
To tail in on
(Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends into a wall
or some other support; as, to tail in a
timber.
Tail, v. i. 1. (Arch.)
To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a
wall or other support; -- with in or
into.
2. (Naut.) To swing with the stern in a
certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this
vessel tails down stream.
Tail on. (Naut.) See Tally
on, under Tally.
Tail"age (?), n. (O. Eng.
Law) See Tallage.
Tail"-bay` (?), n. 1.
(Arch.) One of the joists which rest one end on
the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a
wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf.
Case-bay.
2. The part of a canal lock below the lower
gates.
Tail"block` (?), n.
(Naut.) A block with a tail. See Tail,
9.
Tail"board` (?), n. The board
at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let
down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
Tailed (?), a. Having a tail;
having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in
composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed,
etc.
Snouted and tailed like a boar.
Grew.
Tail"ing (?), n. 1.
(Arch.) The part of a projecting stone or brick
inserted in a wall.
Gwilt.
2. (Surg.) Same as Tail,
n., 8 (a).
3. Sexual intercourse. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
4. pl. The lighter parts of grain
separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
5. pl. (Mining) The refuse
part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or
washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever
metal may exist in it. Called also
tails.
Pryce.
Taille (?), n. [F. See
Tally, Tailor.] 1. A tally;
an account scored on a piece of wood. [Obs.]
Whether that he paid or took by taille.
Chaucer.
2. (O. F. Law) Any imposition levied by
the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.
The taille, as it still subsists in France, may
serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon
the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that
he has upon the farm.
A. Smith.
3. (Mus.) The French name for the tenor
voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
Tail"less (?), a. Having no
tail.
H. Spencer.
Tail"lie (?), n. (Scots
Law) Same as Tailzie.
Tai"lor (?), n. [OF.
tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF.
taillier, F. tailler to cut, fr. L.
talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Cf.
Detail, Entail, Retail,
Tally, n.] 1. One whose
occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who
cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou
wert a man's tailor.
Shak.
2. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The
mattowacca; -- called also tailor
herring. (b) The silversides.
3. (Zo\'94l.) The goldfish.
[Prov. Eng.]
Salt-water tailor (Zo\'94l.), the
bluefish. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett. --
Tailor bird (Zo\'94l.), any one of
numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds
belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied
genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves
together to form nests. The common Indian species are O.
longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail
coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the
golden-headed tailor bird (O. coronatus), which has
the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale
olive-green.
Tai"lor, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tailored (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tailoring.] To practice making
men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These tailoring artists for our lays
Invent cramped rules.
M. Green.
Tai"lor*ess, n. A female tailor.
Tai"lor*ing, adv. The business or the
work of a tailor or a tailoress.
Tail"piece` (?), n. 1.
A piece at the end; an appendage.
2. (Arch.) One of the timbers which tail
into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of
Header.
3. (Print.) An ornament placed at the
bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a
book.
Savage.
4. A piece of ebony or other material attached to
the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the
strings are fastened.
Tail"pin" (?), n. (Mach.)
The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
Tail"race` (?), n. 1.
See Race, n., 6.
2. (Mining) The channel in which
tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
Tail"stock` (?), n. The sliding
block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or
adjustable center. The headstock supports the live
spindle.
Tail"-wa`ter (?), n. Water in a
tailrace.
Tail"zie (-z, n.
[F. tailler to cut. See Tail a
limitation.] (Scots Law) An entailment or
deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an
arbitrary one substituted. [Written also
tailzee.]
Tain (?), n. [OE.
tein, teyne; cf. Icel. teinn a
twig, akin to AS. t\'ben, Goth.
tains.] Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for
mirrors.
Knight.
Taint (?), n. [Cf. F.
atteinte a blow, bit, stroke. See
Attaint.] 1. A thrust with a lance,
which fails of its intended effect. [Obs.]
This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a
silver sheath.
Chapman.
2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter,
without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an
encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
[Obs.]
Taint, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tainted (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tainting.] To thrust
ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]
Taint, v. t. 1. To injure, as a
lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but
usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
[Obs.]
Do not fear; I have
A staff to taint, and bravely.
Massinger.
2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
[Obs.]
They tainted each other on the helms and passed
by.
Ld. Berners.
Taint, v. t. [F. teint, p.p.
of teindre to dye, tinge, fr. L. tingere,
tinctum. See Tinge, and cf.
Tint.] 1. To imbue or impregnate
with something extraneous, especially with something odious,
noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison;
as, putrid substance taint the air.
2. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
His unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.
Shak.
Syn. -- To contaminate; defile; pollute; corrupt; infect;
disease; vitiate; poison.
Taint (?), v. i. 1. To
be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something
corrupting.
I can not taint with fear.
Shak.
2. To be affected with incipient putrefaction;
as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
Taint, n. 1. Tincture; hue;
color; tinge. [Obs.]
2. Infection; corruption; deprivation.
He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous
taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to
remove.
Macaulay.
3. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot;
disgrace.
Taint"less, a. Free from taint or
infection; pure.
Taint"less*ly, adv. In a taintless
manner.
Tain"ture (?), n. [F.
teinture. See Taint to stain, and cf.
Tincture.] Taint; tinge; difilement; stain;
spot. [R.]
Shak.
Taint"worm` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect
larva.
Tai"ra (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
Same as Tayra.
Tairn (?), n. See
Tarn.
Coleridge.
Tait (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial
(Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has
a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon
honey and insects. Called also
noolbenger.
{ Ta*ja\'87"u, Ta*jas"su }
(?), n. [Pg. taja\'87\'a3,
from Braz. taya\'87\'a3 a hog or swine.]
(Zo\'94l.) The common, or collared,
peccary.
Take (?), obs. p. p.
of Take. Taken.
Chaucer.
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Take, v. t. [imp.
Took (?); p. p. Takend
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Taking.] [Icel. taka; akin
to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
t\'c7kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize
with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or
possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.
Hence, specifically: --
(a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice;
to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to
one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as,
to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon
or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a
disease, misfortune, or the like.
This man was taken of the Jews.
Acts xxiii. 27.
Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
Pope.
They that come abroad after these showers are commonly
taken with sickness.
Bacon.
There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch kine yield blood.
Shak.
(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of;
to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Prov. vi. 25.
Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that
he had no patience.
Wake.
I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen
features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their
imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the
outshining loveliness of her companions.
Moore.
(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn
to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the
right.
Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And
Jonathan was taken.
1 Sam. xiv. 42.
The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to
take for the destroying . . . of sinners.
Hammond.
(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand;
to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a
coat.
This man always takes time . . . before he passes
his judgments.
I. Watts.
(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate;
to picture; as, to take picture of a
person.
Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
Dryden.
(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive.
[R.]
The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible
motive to a good life, because taken from this
consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery.
Tillotson.
(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to
permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to
have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight,
shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general
senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic
phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take
the liberty to say.
(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a
child to church.
(i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to
hand over; as, he took the book to the
bindery.
He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
Chaucer.
(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with
from; as, to take the breath from one; to
take two from four.
2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to
bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
--
(a) To accept, as something offered; to receive;
not to refuse or reject; to admit.
Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer.
Num. xxxv. 31.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore.
1 Tim. v. 10.
(b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk;
to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or
wine.
(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily;
to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to
submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a
joke; he will take an affront from no man.
(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind;
not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to
entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or
look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a
thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to
take men for spies.
You take me right.
Bacon.
Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
else but the science love of God and our neighbor.
Wake.
[He] took that for virtue and affection which was
nothing but vice in a disguise.
South.
You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
Tate.
(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and
accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; --
used in general senses; as, to take a form or
shape.
I take thee at thy word.
Rowe.
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
Not take the mold.
Dryden.
To be taken aback, To take advantage
of, To take air, etc. See under
Aback, Advantage, etc. -- To take
aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim. --
To take along, to carry, lead, or convey. --
To take arms, to commence war or hostilities.
-- To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause
deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking
away the votes of bishops. \'bdBy your own law, I
take your life away.\'b8 Dryden. --
To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order
to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self. --
To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
solicitous. \'bdDoth God take care for oxen?\'b8
1 Cor. ix. 9. -- To take care of, to have
the charge or care of; to care for; to superintend or
oversee. -- To take down. (a) To
reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as,
to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress;
to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the
proud. \'bdI never attempted to be impudent yet, that I
was not taken down.\'b8 Goldsmith.
(b) To swallow; as, to take down a
potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to
pieces; as, to take down a house or a
scaffold. (d) To record; to write down;
as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters
them. -- To take effect, To take
fire. See under Effect, and
Fire. -- To take ground to the
right to the left (Mil.),
to extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
to the right or left. -- To take heart, to
gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged. -- To
take heed, to be careful or cautious.
\'bdTake heed what doom against yourself you give.\'b8
Dryden. -- To take heed to, to attend
with care, as, take heed to thy ways. --
To take hold of, to seize; to fix on. --
To take horse, to mount and ride a horse. --
To take in. (a) To inclose; to
fence. (b) To encompass or embrace; to
comprise; to comprehend. (c) To draw into a
smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take
in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to
gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To
admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
water. (f) To win by conquest.
[Obs.]
For now Troy's broad-wayed town
He shall take in.
Chapman.
(g) To receive into the mind or understanding.
\'bdSome bright genius can take in a long train of
propositions.\'b8 I. Watts. (h) To receive
regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take.
[Eng.] -- To take in hand. See under
Hand. -- To take in vain, to employ
or utter as in an oath. \'bdThou shalt not take
the name of the Lord thy God in vain.\'b8 Ex. xx.
7. -- To take issue. See under
Issue. -- To take leave. See
Leave, n., 2. -- To take a
newspaper, magazine, or the like, to
receive it regularly, as on paying the price of
subscription. -- To take notice, to observe,
or to observe with particular attention. -- To take
notice of. See under Notice. -- To
take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
manner. -- To take off. (a) To
remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of
anything; as, to take off a load; to take
off one's hat. (b) To cut off; as,
to take off the head, or a limb. (c)
To destroy; as, to take off life.
(d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take
off the force of an argument. (e) To
withdraw; to call or draw away. Locke. (f)
To swallow; as, to take off a glass of
wine. (g) To purchase; to take in
trade. \'bdThe Spaniards having no commodities that we will
take off.\'b8 Locke. (h) To
copy; to reproduce. \'bdTake off all their models
in wood.\'b8 Addison. (i) To imitate; to
mimic; to personate. (k) To find place for; to
dispose of; as, more scholars than preferments can take
off. [R.] Bacon. <-- to
begin to fly; -- said of an airplane, or of a person operating an
airplane or other flying device. --> -- To take on,
to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
on a character or responsibility. -- To take
one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the
measures of one's own choice. -- To take order
for. See under Order. -- To take
order with, to check; to hinder; to repress.
[Obs.] Bacon. -- To take
orders. (a) To receive directions or
commands. (b) (Eccl.) To enter some
grade of the ministry. See Order, n.,
10. -- To take out. (a) To remove
from within a place; to separate; to deduct. (b)
To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to
take out a stain or spot from cloth. (c)
To produce for one's self; as, to take out a
patent. <-- "produce"?? better, "obtain" -->
(d) To put an end to; as, to take the
conceit out of a man. (e) To
escort; as, to take out to dinner.<-- usu.
paying the expenses --> -- To take over, to
undertake; to take the management of. [Eng.]
Cross (Life of G. Eliot). -- To take
part, to share; as, they take part in our
rejoicing. -- To take part with, to
unite with; to join with.<-- take part in = participate in
--> -- To take place, root,
sides, stock, etc. See under
Place, Root, Side, etc. --
To take the air. (a) (Falconry)
To seek to escape by trying to rise higher than the falcon;
-- said of a bird. (b) See under
Air. -- To take the field.
(Mil.) See under Field. -- To
take thought, to be concerned or anxious; to be
solicitous. Matt. vi. 25, 27. -- To take to
heart. See under Heart. -- To take
to task, to reprove; to censure. -- <-- to
take to the air, to take off. --> To take
up. (a) To lift; to raise. Hood.
(b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up
goods to a large amount; to take up money at the
bank. (c) To begin; as, to take
up a lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1. (d)
To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace;
as, to take up raveled stitches;
specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a
ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy
or fill; as, to take up the time; to take
up a great deal of room. (f) To take
permanently. \'bdArnobius asserts that men of the finest
parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian
religion.\'b8 Addison. (g) To seize; to
catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take
up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe;
to receive. [Obs.]
The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
Bacon.
(i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to
berate.
One of his relations took him up
roundly.
L'Estrange.
(k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
continuous succession.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale.
Addison.
<-- The second volume takes up where the first left off. -->
(l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or
manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
to take up current opinions. \'bdThey take
up our old trade of conquering.\'b8 Dryden.
(m) To comprise; to include. \'bdThe noble poem
of Palemon and Arcite . . . takes up seven years.\'b8
Dryden. (n) To receive, accept, or adopt
for the purpose of assisting; to espouse the cause of; to
favor. Ps. xxvii. 10. (o) To collect;
to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a
contribution. \'bdTake up commodities upon
our bills.\'b8 Shak. (p) To pay and
receive; as, to take up a note at the
bank. (q) (Mach.) To remove, as
by an adjustment of parts; as, to take up lost
motion, as in a bearing; also, to make tight, as by winding,
or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in
sewing. (r) To make up; to compose; to
settle; as, to take up a quarrel.
[Obs.] Shak. <-- (s) To accept from
someone, as a wager or a challenge. "J. took M. up on his
challenge." --> -- To take up arms. Same as
To take arms, above. -- To take upon one's
self. (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he
takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of
proof. (b) To appropriate to one's self;
to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as,
to take upon one's self a punishment. --
To take up the gauntlet. See under
Gauntlet.
Take (?), v. i. 1. To
take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended
effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but
the virus did not take.
Shak.
When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a
noise.
Bacon.
In impressions from mind to mind, the impression
taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any
manifest effect.
Bacon.
2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake,
And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
Addison.
3. To move or direct the course; to resort; to
betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with
to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took
to the hedge.
4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph;
as, his face does not take well.
To take after. (a) To learn to
follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a
good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the
son takes after his father. -- To take in
with, to resort to. [Obs.]
Bacon. -- To take on, to be violently
affected; to express grief or pain in a violent manner. --
To take to. (a) To apply one's self to;
to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to
evil practices. \'bdIf he does but take to
you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him.\'b8
Walpole. (b) To resort to; to betake one's
self to. \'bdMen of learning, who take to
business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of
the world.\'b8 Addison. -- To take up.
(a) To stop. [Obs.] \'bdSinners at
last take up and settle in a contempt of religion.\'b8
Tillotson. (b) To reform.
[Obs.] Locke. -- To take up
with. (a) To be contended to receive; to
receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take
up with plain fare. \'bdIn affairs which may have
an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not
take up with probabilities.\'b8 I. Watts.
(b) To lodge with; to dwell with.
[Obs.] L'Estrange. -- To take
with, to please. Bacon.
Take, n. 1. That which is
taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or
catch.
2. (Print.) The quantity or copy given
to a compositor at one time.
Take"-in` (?), n. Imposition;
fraud. [Colloq.]
Tak"en (?), p. p. of
Take.
Take"-off` (?), n. An
imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
Tak"er (?), n. One who takes or
receives; one who catches or apprehended.
Take"-up` (?), n. (Mach.)
That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a
sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle
rises, in completing a stitch.
Tak"ing (?), a. 1. Apt
to take; alluring; attracting.
Subtile in making his temptations most taking.
Fuller.
2. Infectious; contageous.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
-- Tak"ing*ly, adv. --
Tak"ing*ness, n.
Tak"ing, n. 1. The act of
gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.
2. Agitation; excitement; distress of mind.
[Colloq.]
What a taking was he in, when your husband asked
who was in the basket!
Shak.
3. Malign influence; infection.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Tak"ing-off` (?), n. Removal;
murder. See To take off (c), under
Take, v. t.
The deep damnation of his taking-off.
Shak.
Tal"a*poin (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A small African monkey
(Cercopithecus, ) -- called
also melarhine.
\'d8Ta*la"ri*a (?), n. pl. [L.,
from talaris pertaining to the ankles, fr.
talus ankle.] (Class. Myth.)
Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the
ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.
Tal"bot (?), n. A sort of dog,
noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.
[Obs.]
Wase (1654).
Talbot family, whence, perhaps, the name.
Tal"bo*type (?), n.
(Photog.) Same as Calotype.
Talc (?), n. [F.
talc; cf. Sp. & It. talco, LL.
talcus; all fr. Ar. talq.]
(Min.) A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a
greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in
foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia.
Steatite, or soapstone, is a
compact granular variety.
Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a
nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; --
called also talc slate.
{ Tal*cose" (?), Talc"ous
(?), } a. [Cf. F.
talqueux.] (Min.) Of or
pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.
Tale (?), n. See
Tael.
Tale, n. [AS. talu number,
speech, narrative; akin to D. taal speech, language,
G. zahl number, OHG. zala, Icel.
tal, tala, number, speech, Sw.
tal, Dan. tal number, tale
speech, Goth. talzjan to instruct. Cf. Tell,
v. t., Toll a tax, also Talk,
v. i.] 1. That which is told; an
oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured;
narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. \'bdThe
tale of Troy divine.\'b8 Milton. \'bdIn such
manner rime is Dante's tale.\'b8 Chaucer.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
Ps. xc. 9.
2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by
count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or
weight; a number reckoned or stated.
The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by
weight.
Hooker.
And every shepherd tells his tale,
Under the hawthornn in the dale.
Milton.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the
number.
Carew.
3. (Law) A count or declaration.
[Obs.]
To tell tale of, to make account of.
[Obs.]
Therefore little tale hath he told
Of any dream, so holy was his heart.
Chaucer.
Syn. -- Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation;
account; legend; narrative.
Tale (?), v. i. To tell
stories. [Obs.]
Chaucer. Gower.
Tale"bear`er (?), n. One who
officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously
communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes
mischief.
Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father,
did their best to inflame her resentment.
Macaulay.
Tale"bear`ing, a. Telling tales
officiously.
Tale"bear`ing, n. The act of informing
officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc.,
maliciously.
Ta"led (?), n. (Jewish
Antiq.) A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on
by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues.
Crabb.
Tale"ful (?), a. Full of
stories. [R.]
Thomson.
\'d8Tal`e*gal"la (?), n.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of Australian
birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush
turkey.
Tal"ent (?), n. [F., fr. L.
talentum a talent (in sense 1), Gr. tolerare, tollere, to
lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t.,
Tolerate.] 1. Among the ancient
Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 min\'91
or 6,000 drachm\'91. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57
lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value
was \'9c243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred
talents.
Jowett (Thucid.).
2. Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of
money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in
weight was equal to about 93
3. Inclination; will; disposition; desire.
[Obs.]
They rather counseled you to your talent than to
your profit.
Chaucer.
4. Intellectual ability, natural or acquired;
mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special
gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use
of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the
talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).
He is chiefly to be considered in his three different
talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of
odes.
Dryden.
His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful
manners, made him generally popular.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Ability; faculty; gift; endowment. See
Genius.
Tal"ent*ed, a. Furnished with talents;
possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted.
Abp. Abbot (1663).
talent or talents to
signify mental ability, although at first merely metaphorical, is
now fully established, and talented, as a formative,
is just as analogical and legitimate as gifted,
bigoted, moneyed, landed,
lilied, honeyed, and numerous other
adjectives having a participal form, but derived directly from
nouns and not from verbs.
\'d8Ta"les (?), n. [L., pl. of
talis such (persons).] (Law)
(a) pl. Persons added to a jury,
commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any
deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being
like, or such as, the latter. Blount.
Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing.
The writ by which such persons are summoned.
Tales book, a book containing the names of
such as are admitted of the tales. Blount.
Craig. -- \'d8Tales de circumstantibus
[L.], such, or the like, from those standing
about.
Tales"man (?), n.; pl.
Talesmen (. (Law) A
person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors
when a tales is awarded.
Wharton.
Tale"tell`er (?), n. One who
tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious
manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
Tale"wise` (?), adv. In a way
of a tale or story.
Tal"ia*co`tian (?), a. See
Tagliacotian.
Tal`i*a"tion (?), n.
Retaliation. [Obs.]
Just heav'n this taliation did decree.
Beaumont.
Ta"li*on (?), n. [F., fr. L.
talio, perh. fr. talis such. Cf.
Retaliation.] Retaliation.
[R.]
Holinshed.
\'d8Tal"i*pes (?), n. [NL., fr.
L. talus an ankle + pes, pedis,
a foot; cf. L. talipedare to be weak in the feet,
properly, to walk on the ankles.] (Surg.)
The deformity called clubfoot. See
Clubfoot.
Talipes varus, in which the foot is drawn up and
bent inward; T. valgus, in which the foot is bent
outward; T. equinus, in which the sole faces
backward and the patient walks upon the balls of the toes; and
T. calcaneus (called also talus),
in which the sole faces forward and the patient walks upon the
heel.
Tal"i*pot (?), n. [Hind.
t\'belp\'bet the leaf of the tree.]
(Bot.) A beautiful tropical palm tree
(Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the
Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing
a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas
and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips,
as a substitute for writing paper.
<-- p. 1471 -->
Tal"is*man (?), n.; pl.
Talismans (#). [Sp., from Ar.
tilism, tilsam, a magical image, pl.
tilsam\'ben, fr. Gr. 1. A magical figure
cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the
configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are
ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly
sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone,
or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its
influence.
2. Hence, something that produces extraordinary
effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm;
as, a talisman to avert diseases.
Swift.
{ Tal`is*man"ic (?),
Tal`is*man"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. talismanique.] Of or
pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or
preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
Talk (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Talked (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Talking.]
[Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G.
talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken
to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to
speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw.
tolka, Icel. t to interpret,
t an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an
interpreter, tulkanti, tulk\'d3ti, to
interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk
about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see
Tale, v. i. & n.).]
1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to
speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons
interchange thoughts.
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.
Shak.
2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
Let me talk with thee of thy judgments.
Jer. xii. 1.
3. To prate; to speak impertinently.
[Colloq.]
To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give an
account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains
of Palmyra. \'bdThe natural histories of Switzerland
talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the
great damage done.\'b8 Addison. -- To talk
to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I
will talk to my son respecting his conduct.
[Colloq.]
Talk, v. t. 1. To speak freely;
to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk
French.
2. To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to
make a subject of conversation; as, to talk
nonsense; to talk politics.
3. To consume or spend in talking; -- often
followed by away; as, to talk away an
evening.
4. To cause to be or become by talking.
\'bdThey would talk themselves mad.\'b8
Shak.
To talk over. (a) To talk about; to
have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss;
as, to talk over a matter or plan.
(b) To change the mind or opinion of by talking; to
convince; as, to talk over an
opponent.
Talk, n. 1. The act of talking;
especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is
uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual
converse of two or more.
In various talk the instructive hours they
passed.
Pope.
Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical
phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses.
Macaulay.
2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of
war.
I hear a talk up and down of raising our money.
Locke.
3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is
the talk of the town.
Syn. -- Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue;
conference; communication. See Conversation.
Talk"a*tive (?), a. Given to
much talking.
Syn. -- Garrulous; loquacious. See Garrulous.
-- Talk"a*tive*ly, adv. --
Talk"a*tive*ness, n.
Talk"er (?), n. 1. One
who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of
conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
There probably were never four talkers more
admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk,
and Garrick.
Macaulay.
2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler;
a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or
reproach.
Jer. Taylor.
Talk"ing, a. 1. That talks;
able to utter words; as, a talking
parrot.
2. Given to talk; loquacious.
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made.
Goldsmith.
Tall (?), a.
[Compar. Taller (?);
superl. Tallest.] [OE.
tal seemly, elegant, docile (?); of uncertain origin;
cf. AS. un-tala, un-tale, bad, Goth.
untals indocile, disobedient, uninstructed, or W. &
Corn. tal high, Ir. talla meet, fit,
proper, just.] 1. High in stature; having a
considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and
comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent
small in proportion to the height; as, a tall
person, tree, or mast.
Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall.
Milton.
2. Brave; bold; courageous.
[Obs.]
As tall a trencherman
As e'er demolished a pye fortification.
Massinger.
His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were
suddenly recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to
succors with three thousand tall men.
Grafton.
3. Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant;
excessive. [Obs. or Slang]
B. Jonson.
Syn. -- High; lofty. -- Tall,
High, Lofty. High is the generic
term, and is applied to anything which is elevated or raised
above another thing. Tall specifically describes that
which has a small diameter in proportion to its height; hence, we
speak of a tall man, a tall steeple, a
tall mast, etc., but not of a tall hill.
Lofty has a special reference to the expanse above us,
and denotes an imposing height; as, a lofty
mountain; a lofty room. Tall is now
properly applied only to physical objects; high and
lofty have a moral acceptation; as, high
thought, purpose, etc.; lofty aspirations; a
lofty genius. Lofty is the stronger word,
and is usually coupled with the grand or admirable.
{ Tal"lage (?), Tal"li*age
(?), } n. [F. taillage.
See Taille, and cf. Tailage.] (O.
Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons,
knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
[Written also tailage,
taillage.]
scutage; when by cities and burghs,
tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure,
hidage.
Blackstone.
Tal"lage, v. t. To lay an impost upon;
to cause to pay tallage.
Tal"li*er (?), n. One who keeps
tally.
Tall"ness (?), n. The quality
or state of being tall; height of stature.
Tal"low (?), n. [OE.
taluh, talugh; akin to OD.
talgh, D. talk, G., Dan. and Sw.
talg, Icel. t\'d3lgr, t\'d3lg,
t\'d3lk; and perhaps to Goth. tulgus
firm.] 1. The suet or fat of animals of the
sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter
by melting.
Fat.
2. The fat of some other animals, or the fat
obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling
the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
Tallow candle, a candle made of tallow.
-- Tallow catch, a keech. See Keech.
[Obs.] -- Tallow chandler, one whose
occupation is to make, or to sell, tallow candles. --
Tallow chandlery, the trade of a tallow chandler;
also, the place where his business is carried on. --
Tallow tree (Bot.), a tree
(Stillingia sebifera) growing in China, the seeds of
which are covered with a substance which resembles tallow and is
applied to the same purposes.
Tal"low, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tallowed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tallowing.] 1. To
grease or smear with tallow.
2. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to
fatten; as, tallow sheep.
Tal"low*er (?), n. An animal
which produces tallow.
Tal"low-face` (?), n. One who
has a sickly, pale complexion.
Shak.
Tal"low-faced` (?), a. Having a
sickly complexion; pale.
Burton.
Tal"low*ing, n. The act, or art, of
causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals
of producing tallow.
Tal"low*ish, a. Having the qualities of
tallow.
Tal"low*y (?), a. Of the nature
of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
Tall"wood` (?), n. [Cf.
Tally.] Firewood cut into billets of a
certain length. [Obs.] [Eng.]
Tal"ly (?), n.; pl.
Tallies (#). [OE.
taile, taille, F. taille a
cutting, cut tally, fr. tailler to cut, but influenced
probably by taill\'82, p.p. of tailler. See
Tailor, and cf. Tail a limitation,
Taille, Tallage.] 1.
Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were
cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of
paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
tallies were received as evidence in courts of
justice. In the English exchequer were tallies of
loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other being
given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to
government.
2. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or
marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one
kept in duplicate.
3. One thing made to suit another; a match; a
mate.
They were framed the tallies for each other.
Dryden.
4. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally;
as, to make or earn a tally in a game.
5. A tally shop. See Tally shop,
below.
Tally shop, a shop at which goods or articles
are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in
corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the
buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller,
and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The
trade thus regulated is called tally trade.
Eng. Encyc. -- To strike tallies, to act
in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.]
Fuller.
Tal"ly, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tallied (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tallying.] [Cf. F.
tialler to cut. See Tally,
n.] 1. To score with correspondent
notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or
suit.
They are not so well tallied to the present
juncture.
Pope.
2. (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of
freight going inboard or outboard.
W. C. Russell.
Tally on (Naut.), to dovetail
together.
Tal"ly (?), v. i. 1.
To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with
the channel.
Addison.
Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine.
Walpole.
2. To make a tally; to score; as, to
tally in a game.
Tally on (Naut.), to man a rope for
hauling, the men standing in a line or tail.
Tal"ly (?), adv. [See
Tall, a.] Stoutly; with
spirit. [Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
Tal"ly*ho` (?), interj. & n.
1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his
hounds.
2. A tallyho coach.
Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under
Coach.
Tal"ly*man (?), n.; pl.
Tallymen (. 1. One
who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
2. One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his
business as tally trade.
Tal"ma (?), n.; pl.
Talmas (#). [Prob. so called from
Talma, a French actor.] (a) A kind
of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of
ladies. (b) A similar garment worn formerly
by gentlemen.
Tal"mud (?), n. [Chald.
talm instruction, doctrine, fr.
lamad to learn, limmad to teach.]
The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised
in the Pentateuch.
Talmud consists of two parts, the
Mishna, or text, and the Gemara, or
commentary. Sometimes, however, the name Talmud is
restricted, especially by Jewish writers, to the Gemara. There
are two Talmuds, the Palestinian, commonly, but
incorrectly, called the Talmud of Jerusalem, and the
Babylonian Talmud. They contain the same Mishna, but
different Gemaras. The Babylonian Talmud is about three times as
large as the other, and is more highly esteemed by the
Jews.
{ Tal*mud"ic (?), Tal*mud"ic*al
(?), } a. [Cf. F.
talmudique.] Of or pertaining to the
Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek;
Talmudical phrases.
Lightfoot.
Tal"mud*ist (?), n. [Cf. F.
talmudiste.] One versed in the Talmud; one
who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Tal`mud*is"tic (?), a.
Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.
Tal"on (?), n. [F., heel, spur,
LL. talo, fr. L. talus the ankle,
heel.] 1. The claw of a predaceous bird or
animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.
Bacon.
2. (Zo\'94l.) One of certain small
prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's
tooth.
3. (Arch.) A kind of molding, concave at
the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an
ogee.
inverted talon.
4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the
key acts to shoot the bolt.
Knight.
{ Ta*look", Ta*luk" } (?),
n. [Ar. ta'lluq.] A large
estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency
the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection
and payment of the public revenue due from it.
[India]
{ Ta*look"dar, Ta*luk"dar }
(?), n. [Hind., fr. Per.
ta'lluqd\'ber.] A proprietor of a
talook. [India]
\'d8Tal"pa (?), n. [L.,
mole.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of small
insectivores including the common European mole.
\'d8Ta"lus (?), n.; pl.
Tali (#). [L., the ankle, the
ankle bone.] 1. (Anat.) The
astragalus.
2. (Surg.) A variety of clubfoot
(Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under
Talipes.
Ta"lus, n. [F.] 1.
(Fort.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a
work.
2. (Geol.) A sloping heap of fragments
of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
Tam`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The
quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
Tam"a*ble (?), a. Capable of
being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage
ferociousness. -- Tam"a*ble*ness,
n.
Ta*man"du (?), n. [Sp., from
the native name: cf. F. tamandua.]
(Zo\'94l.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua
tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South
America.
tamandua, little ant-bear,
fourmilier, and cagouare.
The collared, or striped, tamandu (Tamandua
bivittata) is considered a distinct species by some
writers, but by others is regarded as only a variety.
Ta`ma*noir" (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The ant-bear.
Tam"a*rack (?), n. (Bot.)
(a) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon
and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See
Hackmatack, and Larch. (b)
The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska,
California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
Tam"a*ric (?), n. [L.
tamarice. See Tamarisk.] A shrub
or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of
heath. [Obs.]
He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he
shall not see when good shall come.
Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).
Tam"a*rin (?), n. [From the
native name in Cayenne.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one
of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys
of the genus Midas, especially M.
ursulus.
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Tam"a*rind (?), n. [It.
tamarindo, or Sp. tamarindo, or Pg.
tamarindo, tamarinho, from Ar.
tamarhind\'c6, literally, Indian date;
tamar a dried date + Hind India: cf. F.
tamarin. Cf. Hindoo.] (Bot.)
1. A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica)
cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for
the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree
is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are
in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and
finely pinnated.
2. One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind,
which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for
preparing a pleasant drink.
Tamarind fish, a preparation of a variety of
East Indian fish with the acid pulp of the tamarind fruit.
-- Velvet tamarind. (a) A West African
leguminous tree (Codarium acutifolium).
(b) One of the small black velvety pods, which are
used for food in Sierra Leone. -- Wild tamarind
(Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat
resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua
of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium
filicifolium of the West Indies.
Tam"a*risk (?), n. [L.
tamariscus, also tamarix,
tamarice, Skr. tam\'bela,
tam\'belaka, a tree with a very dark bark; cf.
tamas darkness: cf. F. tamarisc,
tamarix, tamaris.] (Bot.)
Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the
species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute
scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species
(T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of
manna.
Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree
(Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of
salt.
Tam"bac (?), n. (Metal.)
See Tombac. [Obs.]
Tam"bour (?), n. 1.
(Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a
tambourine.
2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat
resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding,
a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the
embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter
sense, tambour work.
3. (Arch.) Same as Drum,
n., 2(d).
4. (Fort.) A work usually in the form of
a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the
gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
5. (Physiol.) A shallow metallic cup or
drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever.
Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and
used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of
any pulsating artery.
Tam"bour, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tamboured (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tambouring.] To embroider on a
tambour.
Tam`bou`rin" (?), n. [F. See
Tambourine.] 1. A tambourine.
[Obs.]
2. (Mus.) An old Proven\'87al dance of a
lively character, common on the stage.
Tam`bour*ine" (?), n. [F.
tambourin; cf. It. tamburino. See
Tambour, and cf. Tamborine.] A small
drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on
with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
Tam"breet (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The duck mole.
Tam`bu*rin" (?), n. See
Tambourine.
Spenser.
Tame (?), v. t. [Cf. F.
entamer to cut into, to broach.] To broach
or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute;
to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and
keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his
stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath
reserved for time of need.
Fuller.
Tame, a. [Compar.
Tamer (?); superl.
Tamest.] [AS. tam; akin to
D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan.
& Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare
to tame, Gr. dam to be tame, to tame, and
perhaps to E. beteem. \'fb61. Cf. Adamant,
Diamond, Dame, Daunt,
Indomitable.] 1. Reduced from a
state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man;
domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a
tame bird.
2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow.
Roscommon.
3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless;
dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame
scenery.
Syn. -- Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
Tame, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Taming.] [AS. tamian,
temian, akin to D. tammen,
temmen, G. z\'84hmen, OHG.
zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth.
gatamjan. See Tame, a.]
1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to
make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to
tame a wild beast.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited
into savegeness and stubbornness.
Macaulay.
2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to
tame the pride or passions of youth.
Tame"a*ble (?), a.
Tamable.
Bp. Wilkins.
Tame"less, a. Incapable of being tamed;
wild; untamed; untamable. Bp. Hall. --
Tame"less*ness, n.
Tame"ly, adv. In a tame manner.
Tame"ness, n. The quality or state of
being tame.
Tam"er (?), n. One who tames or
subdues.
\'d8Ta"mi*as (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A genus
of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.
Ta"mil (?), a. Of or pertaining
to the Tamils, or to their language. [Written also
Tamul.]
Ta"mil, n. [Written also
Tamul.] 1. (Ethnol.)
One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and
Southern India.
2. The Tamil language, the most important of the
Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
Ta*mil"i*an (?), a. & n.
Tamil.
{ Tam"ine (?), Tam"i*ny
(?), } n. [Cf. F. tamis
a sort of sieve. Cf. Stamin, Temse.]
A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.
Tam"is (?), n. [F., a kind of
sieve.] 1. A sieve, or strainer, made of a
kind of woolen cloth.
2. The cloth itself; tammy.
Tamis bird (Zo\'94l.), a Guinea
fowl.
Tam"kin (?), n. A
tampion.
Johnson (Dict.).
Tam"my (?), n.; pl.
Tammies (. 1. A kind
of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, --
used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
2. A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a
tamis.
Tamp (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tamped (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Tamping.]
[Cf. F. tamponner to plug or stop. See
Tampion.] 1. In blasting, to plug up
with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole
bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion
from being misdirected.
2. To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes;
as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth
place.
Tam"pan (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A venomous South African tick.
Livingstone.
Tam"pe*on (?), n. See
Tampion.
Farrow.
Tamp"er (?), n. 1. One
who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by
filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
2. An instrument used in tamping; a tamping
iron.
Tam"per (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Tampered
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tampering.] [A corruption of
temper.] 1. To meddle; to be busy;
to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a
disease.
'T is dangerous tampering with a muse.
Roscommon.
2. To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a
thing.
3. To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use
bribery.
Others tampered
For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert.
Hudibras.
Tam"per*er (?), n. One who
tampers; one who deals unfairly.
{ Tam*pi"co fi"ber fi"bre
(?) }. A tough vegetable fiber used as a
substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the
ixtle are both used under this name.
Tamp"ing (?), n. 1.
The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling
up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of
blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp,
v. t., 1.
Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the
earthy substance in tamping for blasting.
Tam"pi*on (?), n. [F.
tampon, tapon, tape, of Dutch or
German origin. See Tap a pipe or plug, and cf.
Tamp, Tampop, Tompion.]
[Written also tampeon, and
tompion.] 1. A wooden stopper,
or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in
use.
2. (Mus.) A plug for upper end of an
organ pipe.
Tam"poe (?), n. (Bot.)
The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea
Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an
apple.
Tam"pon (?), n. [F. See
Tampion.] (Surg.) A plug
introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in
order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of
medicine.
Tam"pon, v. t. (Surg.) To
plug with a tampon.
Tam"poon (?), n. [See
Tampion.] The stopper of a barrel; a
bung.
Tam"-tam` (?), n. [Hind.; of
imitative origin.] (Mus.) (a) A
kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental
countries; -- called also tom-tom.
(b) A gong. See Gong, n.,
1.
Ta"mul (?), a. & n.
Tamil.
Tan (?), n. [Chin.]
See Picul.
Tan, n. [F. tan, perhaps fr.
Armor. tann an oak, oak bar; or of Teutonic origin;
cf. G. tanne a fir, OHG. tanna a fir, oak,
MHG. tan a forest. Cf. Tawny.]
1. The bark of the oak, and some other trees,
bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called
both before and after it has been used. Called also tan
bark.
2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
3. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure
to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan;
a bark bed. -- Tan pickle, the liquor used in
tanning leather. -- Tan spud, a spud used in
stripping bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove.
See Bark stove, under Bark. --
Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in
liquor with tan.
Tan, a. Of the color of tan;
yellowish-brown.
Black and tan. See under Black,
a.
Tan, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tanned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tanning.] [F. tanner, LL.
tannare. See Tan, n.]
1. To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather,
as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some
other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid
(which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered
firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
2. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the
rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
Tan (?), v. i. To get or become
tanned.
Ta"na (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
Same as Banxring.
Tan"a*ger (?), n. [NL.
tanagra, probably fr. Brazilian
tangara.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of
numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to
Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The
scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer
redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the
United States.
Tan"a*grine (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
tanagers.
Tan"a*groid (?), a.
[Tanager + -oid.]
(Zo\'94l.) Tanagrine.
\'d8Ta*na"te (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) An Asiatic wild dog (Canis
procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It
has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon
dog.
Tan"dem (?), adv. & a. [L.
tandem at length (of time only), punningly taken as
meaning, lengthwise.] One after another; -- said
especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another,
instead of abreast.
Tan"dem, n. A team of horses harnessed
one before the other. \'bdHe drove tandems.\'b8
Thackeray.
Tandem engine, a compound steam engine having
two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one
another. -- Tandem bicycle tricycle, one for two persons in which one
rider sits before the other.
Tang (?), n. [Of Scand. origin;
cf. Dan. tang seaweed, Sw. t\'86ng, Icel.
. Cf. Tangle.]
(Bot.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus
nodosus).
Dr. Prior.
Tang sparrow (Zo\'94l.), the rock
pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
Tang, n. [Probably fr. OD.
tanger sharp, tart, literally, pinching; akin to E.
tongs. \'fb59. See Tong.] 1.
A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of
something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider
has a tang of the cask.
2. Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf.
Tang a twang.
Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
Fuller.
A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party
politics.
Jeffrey.
3. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel.
tangi a projecting point; akin to E. tongs.
See Tongs.] A projecting part of an object by
means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part;
anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
Specifically: --
(a) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small
instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
(b) The projecting part of the breech of a musket
barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
(c) The part of a sword blade to which the handle
is fastened.
(d) The tongue of a buckle. [Prov.
Eng.]
Tang, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf.
Twang. This word has become confused with
tang tatse, flavor.] A sharp, twanging
sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
Tang, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tanged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tanging.] To cause to ring or sound
loudly; to ring.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.
Shak.
To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to
settle, by beating metal to make a din.
Tang, v. i. To make a ringing sound; to
ring.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.
Shak.
Tan"ga*lung (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) An East Indian civet (Viverra
tangalunga).
Tan"gence (?), n.
Tangency. [R.]
Tan"gen*cy (?), n. The quality
or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
Tan"gent (?), n. [L.
tangens, -entis, p.pr. of
tangere to touch; akin to Gr. tangente. Cf. Attain,
Contaminate, Contingent, Entire,
Tact, Taste, Tax, v.
t.] (Geom.) A tangent line curve, or
surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent
to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given
line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas,
or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical
function, under Function.
Artificial, Logarithmic,
tangent, the logarithm of the natural
tangent of an arc. -- Natural tangent, a
decimal expressing the length of the tangent of an arc, the
radius being reckoned unity. -- Tangent
galvanometer (Elec.), a form of galvanometer
having a circular coil and a short needle, in which the tangent
of the angle of deflection of the needle is proportional to the
strength of the current. -- Tangent of an angle,
the natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the
angle. -- Tangent of an arc, a right line, as
ta, touching the arc of a circle at one extremity
a, and terminated by a line ct, passing from the
center through the other extremity o.
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Tan"gent, a. [L. tangens,
-entis, p.pr.] Touching; touching at a
single point; specifically (Geom.) meeting
a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same
direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line,
curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a
curve tangent to a surface; tangent
surfaces.
Tangent plane (Geom.), a plane
which touches a surface in a point or line. -- Tangent
scale (Gun.), a kind of breech sight for a
cannon. -- Tangent screw (Mach.),
an endless screw; a worm.
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Tan*gen"tal (?), a.
(Geom.) Tangential.
Tan*gen"tial (?), a.
(Geom.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the
direction of a tangent.
Tangential force (Mech.), a force
which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the
path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the
velocity; -- distinguished from a normal force, which
acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of
the motion without changing the velocity. -- Tangential
stress. (Engin.) See Shear,
n., 3.
Tan*gen"tial*ly, adv. In the direction
of a tangent.
Tan"ger*ine` (?), n. [Etymol.
uncertain.] (Bot.) A kind of orange, much
like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is
said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.
[Written also tangierine.]
Tang"fish` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The common harbor seal.
[Prov. Eng.]
\'d8Tan*ghin"i*a (?), n.
[NL.] (Bot.) The ordeal tree. See
under Ordeal.
Tan`gi*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F.
tanggibilit\'82.] The quality or state of
being tangible.
Tan"gi*ble (?), a. [L.
tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F.
tangible. See Tangent.] 1.
Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
Bacon.
2. Capable of being possessed or realized; readily
apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.
\'bdA tangible blunder.\'b8
Byron.
Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and
others.
Southey.
-- Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. --
Tan"gi*bly, adv.
Tan"gle (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tangled
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tangling
(?).] [A frequentative fr.
tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed. See
Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle,
n.] 1. To unite or knit together
confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make
it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be
tangled in lies. \'bdTangled in
amorous nets.\'b8
Milton.
When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways.
Crashaw.
Tan"gle, v. i. To be entangled or united
confusedly; to get in a tangle.
Tan"gle, n. 1. [Cf. Icel.
. See Tang seaweed.]
(Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the
Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the
palms of the ocean.
C. Kingsley.
2. [From Tangle, v.]
A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so
interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair
or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and
briers. Used also figuratively.
3. pl. An instrument consisting
essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or
bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to
capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures
living at the bottom of the sea.
Blue tangle. (Bot.)See
Dangleberry. -- Tangle picker
(Zo\'94l.), the turnstone. [Prov.
Eng.]
Tan"gle*fish` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The sea adder, or great pipefish of
Europe.
Tan"gling*ly (?), adv. In a
tangling manner.
Tan"gly (?), a. 1.
Entangled; intricate.
2. Covered with tangle, or seaweed.
Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay.
Falconer.
Tan"gram (?), n. [Cf.
Trangram.] A Chinese toy made by cutting a
square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven
pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of
combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of
different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a
means of instruction.
Tangue (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
The tenrec.
Tan"gun (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A piebald variety of the horse, native
of Thibet.
Tang"whaup (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The whimbrel. [Prov.
Eng.]
Tan"i*er (?), n. (Bot.)
An aroid plant (Caladium sagitt\'91folium), the
leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies.
[Written also tannier.]
Tan"ist (?), n. [Ir.
tanaiste, tanaise, second, the second
person in rank, the presumptive or apparent heir to a
prince.] In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract
of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of
tanistry.
This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large
territory within the present county of Armagh.
M. A. Lower.
Tan"ist*ry (?), n. [See
Tanist.] In Ireland, a tenure of family lands
by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was
admitted by election.
Ta"nite (?), n. A firm
composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for
making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
Tank (?), n. A small Indian dry
measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of
72 grains, for pearls.
Simmonds.
Tank, n. [Pg. tanque, L.
stangum a pool; or perhaps of East Indian origin. Cf.
Stank, n.] A large basin or
cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
Tank engine, a locomotive which carries the
water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender.
-- Tank iron, plate iron thinner than boiler
plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron. --
Tank worm (Zo\'94l.), a small nematoid
worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be
the young of the Guinea worm.
Tan"ka (?), n. (Naut.)
A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and
is often rowed by women. Called also
tankia.
S. W. Williams.
Tank"ard (?), n. [OF.
tanquart; cf. OD. tanckaert; of uncertain
origin.] A large drinking vessel, especially one with
a cover.
Marius was the first who drank out of a silver
tankard, after the manner of Bacchus.
Arbuthnot.
Tan"ki*a (?), n. (Naut.)
See Tanka.
Tank"ling (?), n. A
tinkling. [Obs.]
Tan"ling (?), n. One tanned by
the sun. [R.]
Hot summer's tanlings and
The shrinking slaves of winter.
Shak.
Tan"na*ble (?), a. That may be
tanned.
Tan"nage (?), n. A tanning; the
act, operation, or result of tanning. [R.]
They should have got his cheek fresh tannage.
R. Browning.
Tan"nate (?), n. [Cf. F.
tannate.] (Chem.) A salt of
tannic acid.
Tan"ner (?), n. One whose
occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the
use of tan.
Tan"ner*y (?), n.; pl.
Tanneries (#). [Cf. F.
tannerie.] 1. A place where the
work of tanning is carried on.
2. The art or process of tanning.
[R.]
Carlyle.
Tan"nic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as,
tannic acid.
Tannic acid. (Chem.) (a)
An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous
substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste,
and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is
the basis of common ink. Called also tannin,
and gallotannic acid. (b) By
extension, any one of a series of astringent substances
resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the vegetable
kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee,
etc.
Tan"ni*er (?), n. (Bot.)
See Tanier.
Tan"nin (?), n. [Cf. F.
tannin.] (Chem.) Same as
Tannic acid, under Tannic.
Tan"ning, n. The art or process of
converting skins into leather. See Tan, v.
t., 1.
Tan"rec (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Tenrec.
Tan"sy (?), n. [OE.
tansaye, F. tanaise; cf. It. & Sp.
tanaceto, NL. tanacetum, Pg.
atanasia, athanasia, Gr.
'aqanasi`a immortality, fr. 'aqa`natos
immortal; 'a priv. + qa`natos death.]
1. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite
genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (T.
vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor,
and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary
purposes.
2. A dish common in the seventeenth century, made
of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked
with butter in a shallow dish. [Obs.]
Pepys.
Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of
the common tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual.
-- Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant
(Sisymbrium canescens) of the Mustard family, with
tansylike leaves.
Tant (?), n. [Cf.
Taint tincture.] (Zo\'94l.) A
small scarlet arachnid.
Tan"ta*late (?), n.
(Chem.) A salt of tantalic acid.
Tan*tal"ic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of or pertaining to tantalum; derived
from, or containing, tantalum; specifically, designating any one
of a series of acids analogous to nitric acid and the polyacid
compounds of phosphorus.
Tan"ta*lism (?), n. [See
Tantalize.] A punishment like that of
Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of
good which is not attainable; tantalization.
Addison.
Is not such a provision like tantalism to this
people?
Josiah Quincy.
Tan"ta*lite (?), n. [Cf. F.
tantalite.] (Min.) A heavy
mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is
essentially a tantalate of iron.
Tan`ta*li*za"tion (?), n. The
act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized.
Gayton.
Tan"ta*lize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tantalized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tantalizing
(?).] [From Tantalus: cf. F.
tantaliser.] To tease or torment by
presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but
continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out
of reach; to tease; to torment.
Thy vain desires, at strife
Within themselves, have tantalized thy life.
Dryden.
Syn. -- To tease; vex; irritate; provoke. --
Tantalize, Disappoint. To disappoint
is literally to do away with what was (or was taken to
be) appointed; hence the peculiar pain from hopes thus
dashed to the ground. To tantalize, a much stronger
term, describes a most distressing form of disappointment, as in
the case of Tantalus, the Phrygian king. To tantalize
is to visit with the bitterest disappointment -- to torment by
exciting hopes or expectations which can never be
realized.
Tan"ta*li`zer (?), n. One who
tantalizes.
Tan"ta*li`zing*ly (?), adv. In
a tantalizing or teasing manner.
Tan"ta*lum (?), n. [NL. So
named on account of the perplexity and difficulty encounterd by
its discoverer (Ekeberg) in isolating it. See
Tantalus.] (Chem.) A rare
nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite,
samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which
becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0.
Formerly called also tantalium.
Tan"ta*lus (?), n. [L., from
Gr. Ta`ntalos.] (Gr. Myth.)
1. A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower
world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached
to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his
thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit
which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to
grasp them.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of wading birds
comprising the wood ibises.
Tantalus's cup (Physics), a
philosophical toy, consisting of a cup, within which is the
figure of a man, and within the figure a siphon, the longer arm
of which passes down through the bottom of the cup, and allows
the escape of any liquid that may be poured in, when it reaches
as high as the bend of the siphon, which is just below the level
of the mouth of the figure in the cup.
Tan"ta*mount` (?), a. [F.
tant so much (L. tantus) + E.
amount.] Equivalent in value,
signification, or effect.
A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional
right.
Hallam.
The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was
tantamount to ruin.
De Quincey.
Tan"ta*mount`, v. i. To be tantamount or
equivalent; to amount. [Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.
Tan*tiv"y (?), adv. [Said to be
from the note of a hunting horn.] Swiftly; speedily;
rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride
tantivy.
Tan*tiv"y, n. A rapid, violent gallop;
an impetulous rush.
Cleverland.
Tan*tiv"y, v. i. To go away in
haste. [Colloq.]
Tan"trum (?), n. A whim, or
burst of ill-humor; an affected air. [Colloq.]
Thackeray.
Tan"yard` (?), n. An inclosure
where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.
\'d8Tan`y*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A division of dipterous insects in
which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and
maxill\'91. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.
Ta"o*ism (?), n. One of the
popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state. --
Ta"o*ist, a. & n.
Tap (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Tapped (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tapping.] [F. taper
to strike; of Teutonic origin; cf. dial. G. tapp,
tapps, a blow, tappe a paw, fist, G.
tappen to grope.] 1. To strike
with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to
pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a
cane.
2. To put a new sole or heel on; as, to
tap shoes.
Tap, n. [Cf. F. tape. See
Tap to strike.] 1. A gentle or
slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
Addison.
2. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a
boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
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3. pl. (Mil.) A signal, by
drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers'
quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of
an hour after tattoo.
Wilhelm.
Tap, v. i. To strike a gentle
blow.
Tap, n. [AS. t\'91ppa, akin
to D. tap, G. zapfen, OHG.
zapfo, Dan. tap, Sw. tapp, Icel.
tappi. Cf. Tampion, Tip.]
1. A hole or pipe through which liquor is
drawn.
2. A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a
cask, or the like; a faucet.
3. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain
kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same
tap. [Colloq.]
4. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a
taproom; a bar. [Colloq.]
5. (Mech.) A tool for forming an
internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male
screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
On tap. (a) Ready to be drawn;
as, ale on tap. (b) Broached,
or furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on
tap. -- Plug tap (Mech.),
a screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end. --
Tap bolt, a bolt with a head on one end and a
thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part,
instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut. See
Illust. under Bolt. -- Tap
cinder (Metal.), the slag of a puddling
furnace.
Tap, v. t. 1. To pierce so as
to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask,
a tree, a tumor, etc.
2. Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous
way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of
intercepting information; to tap the
treasury.
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3. To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
Shak.
He has been tapping his liquors.
Addison.
4. (Mech.) To form an internal screw in
(anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to
tap a nut.
\'d8Ta"pa (?), n. A kind of
cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the
paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also
kapa.
\'d8Ta`pa*yax"in (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A Mexican spinous lizard
(Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like
that of a toad; -- called also horned
toad.
Tape (?), n. [AS.
t\'91ppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry,
Tippet.] 1. A narrow fillet or band
of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and
the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as
to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
Red tape. See under Red. --
Tape grass (Bot.), a plant
(Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves,
growing in fresh or brackish water; -- called also
fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland,
wild celery. -- Tape needle.
See Bodkin, n., 4.
Tape"line` (?), n. A painted
tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and
often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.
Ta"per (?), n. [AS.
tapur, tapor, taper; cf. Ir.
tapar, W. tampr.] 1. A
small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small
light.
Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.
Shak.
2. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness
in an elongated object; as, the taper of a
spire.
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Ta"per (?), a. [Supposed to be
from taper, n., in allusion to its form.]
Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward
one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper
fingers.
Ta"per, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tapered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tapering.] To become gradually
smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers
toward one end.
Ta"per, v. t. To make or cause to
taper.
Ta"pered (?), a. Lighted with a
taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
[R.]
T. Warton.
Ta"per*ing (?), a. Becoming
gradually smaller toward one end. --
Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.
Ta"per*ness, n. The quality or state of
being taper; tapering form; taper.
Shenstone.
Tap"es*try (?), n.; pl.
Tapestries (#). [F.
tapissere, fr. tapisser to carpet, to hang,
or cover with tapestry, fr. tapis a carpet, carpeting,
LL. tapecius, fr. L. tapete carpet,
tapestry, Gr. Tapis,
Tippet.] A fabric, usually of worsted, worked
upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being
usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall
hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different
kinds of embroidery.
Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat
resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving,
so as to produce the figure in the cloth. -- Tapestry
moth. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Carpet
moth, under Carpet.
Tap"es*try, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tapestried (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tapestrying.] To adorn with
tapestry, or as with tapestry.
The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock
tapestried with broom and wild roses.
Macaulay.
Tap"et (?), n. [L.
tapete. See Tapestry.] Worked or
figured stuff; tapestry. [R.]
Spenser.
Tap"e*ti (?), n.; pl.
Tapetis (#). [Braz.]
(Zo\'94l.) A small South American hare
(Lepus Braziliensis).
\'d8Ta*pe"tum (?), n. [NL.,
from L. tapete a carpet, a tapestry.]
(Anat.) An area in the pigmented layer of the
choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent
or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark.
Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of
the choroid.
Tape"worm` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of cestode
worms belonging to T\'91nia and many allied genera. The body is
long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids
varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much
larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the
fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a
mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly
in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks
for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in
which they are parasitic. The larv\'91 (see Cysticercus)
live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by
another animal of the right species develop into the mature
tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in
Appendix.
pork tapeworm (T\'91nia solium), the
larva of which is found in pork; the beef tapeworm
(T. mediocanellata), the larva of which lives in the
flesh of young cattle; and the broad tapeworm
(Bothriocephalus latus) which is found chiefly in the
inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia. See
also Echinococcus, Cysticercus,
Proglottis, and 2d Measles, 4.
Tap"house` (?), n. A house
where liquors are retailed.
\'d8Taph*ren"chy*ma (?), n.
[Gr. enchyma, as in
parenchyma.] (Bot.) Same as
Bothrenchyma.
Tap"i*nage (?), n. [See
Tapish.] A lurking or skulking.
[Obs.]
Gower.
Tap`i*o"ca (?), n. [Braz.
tapioka: cf. Pg., Sp. & F. tapioca.]
A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus
partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of
the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for
soups. See Cassava.
Ta"pir (?), n. [Braz.
tapy'ra: cf. F. tapir.]
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of large
odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus,
Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long
prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short,
thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the
hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe
is of little use.
Tapirus Indicus), native of the East Indies and
Malacca, which is black with a broad band of white around the
middle, and the common American tapir (T. Americanus),
which, when adult, is dull brown. Several others species inhabit
the Andes and Central America.
Tapir tiger (Zo\'94l.), the
wallah.
Ta"pir*oid (?), a.
[Tapir + -oid.]
(Zo\'94l.) Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir
family.
Ta"pis (?), n. [F. See
Tapestry.] Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a
council table.
On, Upon, the
tapis, on the table, or under consideration;
as, to lay a motion in Parliament on the
tapis.
Tap"is (?), v. t. To cover or
work with figures like tapestry. [R.]
Holland.
Tap"is*er (?), n. [F.
tapissier.] A maker of tapestry; an
upholsterer. [R.]
Chaucer.
Tap"ish (?), v. i. [F. se
tapir to squat.] To lie close to the
ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to
hide one's self. [Written also tappis,
tappish, tappice.] [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.]
As a hound that, having roused a hart,
Although he tappish ne'er so soft.
Chapman.
Tap"lash` (?), n. Bad small
beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.]
The taplash of strong ale and wine.
Taylor (1630).
Tap"lings (?), n. pl. The
strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are
united.
Halliwell.
\'d8Ta*po"a ta"fa (?). (Zo\'94l.)
A small carnivorous marsupial (Phascogale
penicillata) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail
with a tuft of long hairs at the end; -- called also
brush-tailed phascogale.
Tap"pen (?), n. An obstruction,
or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other
animals during hibernation.
Tap"per (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The lesser spotted woodpecker
(Dendrocopus minor); -- called also
tapperer, tabberer,
little wood pie, barred
woodpecker, wood tapper,
hickwall, and pump
borer. [Prov. Eng.]
Tap"pes*ter (?), n. [See
Tapster.] A female tapster.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Tap"pet (?), n. (Mach.)
A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam,
or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to
produce change or regulate motion.
G. Francis.
Tappet motion, a valve motion worked by
tappets from a reciprocating part, without an eccentric or cam,
-- used in steam pumps, etc.
{ Tap"pice (?), Tap"pis
(?) }, v. i. See
Tapish.
Tap"pit hen` (?). 1. A hen having
a tuft of feathers on her head. [Scot.]
Jamieson.
2. A measuring pot holding one quart (according to
some, three quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid, though
to resemble a crested hen. [Scot.]
Jamieson.
Tap"room` (?), n. A room where
liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.
The ambassador was put one night into a miserable
taproom, full of soldiers smoking.
Macaulay.
Tap"root` (?), n. (Bot.)
The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly
downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
Tap"ster (?), n. [AS.
t\'91ppestre a female tapster. See Tap a
plug, pipe, and -ster.] One whose business is
to tap or draw ale or other liquor.
Ta"qua-nut` (?), n.
(Bot.) A Central American name for the ivory
nut.
Tar (?), n. [Abbrev. from
tarpaulin.] A sailor; a seaman.
[Colloq.]
Swift.
Tar, n. [OE. terre,
tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to
D. teer, G. teer, theer, Icel.
tjara, Sw. tj\'84ra, Dan.
ti\'91re, and to E. tree. \'fb63. See
Tree.] A thick, black, viscous liquid
obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a
varied composition according to the temperature and material
employed in obtaining it.
Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary. --
Mineral tar (Min.), a kind of soft
native bitumen. -- Tar board, a strong
quality of millboard made from junk and old tarred rope.
Knight. -- Tar water. (a) A cold
infusion of tar in water, used as a medicine. (b)
The ammoniacal water of gas works. -- Wood
tar, tar obtained from wood. It is usually obtained by
the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir, and is
used in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc.,
impervious to water.
Tar, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tarred (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tarring.] To smear with tar, or as with
tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar
cloth.
To tar and feather a person. See under
Feather, v. t.
Tar"a*nis (?), n. [L.
taranis, from the Celtic; cf. W. & Corn.
taran thunder.] (Myth.) A Celtic
divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the
Romans with Jupiter.
Tar`an*tass" (?), n. [Russ.
tarantas'.] A low four-wheeled carriage
used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles
which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls,
the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a
sledge.
Tar`an*tel"la (?), n.
[It.] (Mus.) (a) A rapid and
delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in
whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its
being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the
tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in
Apulia. (b) Music suited to such a
dance.
Tar"ant*ism (?), n. [It.
tarantismo: cf. F. tarentisme. See
Tarantula.] (Med.) A nervous
affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable
desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of
the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by
protraced dancing to appropriate music. [Written
also tarentism.]
Ta*ran"tu*la (?), n.; pl. E.
Tarantulas (#), L. Tarantul\'91
(#). [NL., fr. It. tarantola, fr.
L. Tarentum, now Taranto, in the south of
Italy.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several
species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous,
especially the European species (Tarantula apuli\'91).
The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species
of Mygale. [Written also
tarentula.]
Tarantula killer, a very large wasp
(Pompilus formosus), which captures the Texan
tarantula (Mygale Hentzii) and places it in its nest
as food for its young, after paralyzing it by a sting.
Ta*ran"tu*la`ted (?), a. Bitten
by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.
Tar*bog"an (?), n. & v. See
Toboggan.
Tar*boosh" (?), n. [Ar.
tarb; perhaps from Per. sar-posh
headdress: cf. F. tarbouch.] A red cap worn
by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes
swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See
Fez.
Tar*da"tion (?), n. [L.
tardatio, fr. tardare, tardatum,
to retard, delay, fr. tardus slow.] The act
of retarding, or delaying; retardation. [Obs.]
\'d8Tar`di*gra"da (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Tardigrade, a.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) A tribe of edentates
comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their
movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.
2. (Zo\'94l.) An order of minute aquatic
arachnids; -- called also bear animalcules,
sloth animalcules, and water
bears.
Tar"di*grade (?), a. [L.
tardigradus; tardus slow + gradi
to step: cf. F. tardigrade.] 1.
Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced.
[R.]
G. Eliot.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
Tardigrada.
Tar"di*grade, n. (Zo\'94l.)
One of the Tardigrada.
Tar"di*gra`dous (?), a. Moving
slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Tar"di*ly (?), adv. In a tardy
manner; slowly.
Tar"di*ness, n. The quality or state of
being tardy.
Tar`di*ta"tion (?), n.
Tardiness. [Obs.]
To instruct them to avoid all snares of
tarditation, in the Lord's affairs.
Herrick.
Tar"di*ty (?), n. [L.
tarditas.] Slowness; tardiness.
[R.]
Sir K. Digby.
\'d8Tar"do (?), a. [It.]
(Mus.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage
slowly.
\'d8Tar"do, n. [Sp., slow, L.
tardus.] (Zo\'94l.) A
sloth.
Tar"dy (?), a.
[Compar. Tardier (?);
superl. Tardiest.] [F.
tardif, fr. (assumed) LL. tardivus, fr. L.
tardus slow.] 1. Moving with a
slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
And check the tardy flight of time.
Sandys.
Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave.
Prior.
2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed
to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's
payments.
Arbuthnot.
The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed.
Waller.
3. Unwary; unready. [Obs.]
Hudibras.
4. Criminal; guilty. [Obs.]
Collier.
Syn. -- Slow; dilatory; tedious; reluctant. See
Slow.
Tar"dy, v. t. To make tardy.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Tare (?), obs. imp.
of Tear. Tore.
Tare, n. [Cf. Prov. E. tare
brisk, eager, OE. tarefitch the wild vetch.]
1. A weed that grows among wheat and other grain;
-- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium
temulentum, or darnel.
Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then
hath it tares?
Matt. xiii. 27.
The \'bddarnel\'b8 is said to be the tares of
Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the
whole order.
Baird.
2. (Bot.) A name of several climbing or
diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia;
especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for
fodder.
Tare, n. [F. tare; cf. Pr.,
Sp., Pg., & It. tara; all fr. Ar. tarah
thrown away, removed, fr. taraha to reject,
remove.] (Com.) Deficientcy in the weight
or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or
whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence,
the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which
the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such
cask, bag, etc.
Tare, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tared (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Taring.] To ascertain or mark the tare
of (goods).
Tared (?), a. (Chem.)
Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight;
as, tared filter papers, used in weighing
precipitates.
Ta*ren"te (?), n. [Cf. F.
tarente.] (Zo\'94l.) A harmless
lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus
Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent
countries, especially among old walls and ruins.
Tar"ent*ism (?), n. See
Tarantism.
Ta*ren"tu*la (?), n. See
Tarantula.
Targe (?), n. [F. Cf.
Target.] A shield or target.
[Obs. or Poetic] \'bdA buckler on a
targe.\'b8
Chaucer.
Tar"get (?), n. [OF.
targette, dim. of OF. & F. targe, of
Teutonic origin; cf. AS. targe, OD. targie,
G. zarge a frame, case, border, OHG. zarga,
Icel. targa shield.] 1. A kind of
small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
2. (a) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for
practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a
projectile. (b) The pattern or arrangement of
a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he
made a good target.
3. (Surveying) The sliding crosspiece,
or vane, on a leveling staff.
4. (Railroad) A conspicuous disk
attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a
signal.
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Tar"get*ed (?), a. Furnished,
armed, or protected, with a target.
Tar`get*eer" (?), n. One who is
armed with a target or shield. [Written also
targetier.]
Tar"gum (?), n.; pl.
Targums (#). Heb. Targumim
(#). [Chald. targ
interpretation, fr. targ\'c7m to interpret. Cf.
Truchman, and Dragoman.] A
translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament
Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.
Tar"gum*ist, n. The writer of a Targum;
one versed in the Targums.
Tar"iff (?), n. [F.
tarif; cf. Sp. & Pg. tarifa, It.
tariffa; all fr. Ar. ta'r\'c6f information,
explanation, definition, from 'arafa, to know, to
inform, explain.] 1. A schedule, system, or
scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon
goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a
protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff.
(U.S. 1833).
tariff
refers only to imports.
2. The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as,
the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a
pound.
3. Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.;
as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad
fares.
Bolingbroke.
Tar"iff, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tariffed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tariffing.] To make a list of
duties on, as goods.
Tar"in (?), n. [F.]
(Zo\'94l.) The siskin. [Prov.]
Tar"ing (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.)The common tern; -- called also
tarret, and tarrock.
[Prov. Eng.]
Tar"la*tan (?), n. A kind of
thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.
Tarn (?), n. [OE.
terne, Icel. tj\'94rn.] A
mountain lake or pool.
A lofty precipice in front,
A silent tarn below.
Wordsworth.
Tar"nish (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tarnished
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tarnishing.] [F. ternir, fr.
OHG. tarnen to darken, to conceal, hide; akin to OS.
dernian to hide, AS. dernan,
dyrnan, OHG. tarni hidden, OS.
derni, AS. derne, dyrne. Cf.
Dern, a., and see -ish.]
To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an
alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to
diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to
tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to
tarnish the purity of color.
\'bdTarnished lace.\'b8 Fuller. Used also
figuratively; as, to tarnish one's honor.
Syn. -- To sully; stain; dim.
Tar"nish, v. i. To lose luster; to
become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul
air.
Till thy fresh glories, which now shine so bright,
Grow stale and tarnish with our daily sight.
Dryden.
Tar"nish, n. 1. The quality or
state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.
2. (Min.) A thin film on the surface of
a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original
color; as, the steel tarnish in
columbite.
Tar"nish*er (?), n. One who, or
that which, tarnishes.
Ta"ro (?), n. [From the
Polynesian name.] (Bot.) A name for several
aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var.
esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and
their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and
large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in
tropical countries.
Tar"ot (?), n. [F.; cf. It.
tarocco.] A game of cards; -- called also
taroc.
Hoyle.
Tar"pan (?), n. [From the
native name.] (Zo\'94l.) A wild horse found
in the region of the Caspian Sea.
Tar*pau"lin (?), n.
[Tar + palling a covering, pall to
cover. See Pall a covering.] 1. A
piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition,
used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats,
etc.
2. A hat made of, or covered with, painted or
tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
3. Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar.
To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were
called, seemed a strange and half-savage race.
Macaulay.
Tar"pon (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Tarpum.
Tar"pum (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A very large marine fish
(Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States
and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length,
and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of
trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also
tarpon, sabalo,
savanilla, silverfish, and
jewfish.
Tar"quin*ish (?), a. Like a
Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud; haughty;
overbearing.
Tar"race (?), n. See
Trass. [Obs.]
Tar"ra*gon (?), n. [Sp.
taragona, Ar. tarkh; perhaps fr. Gr.
draco; cf. L.
dracunculus tarragon. Cf. Dragon.]
(Bot.) A plant of the genus Artemisa
(A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring
vinegar.
Tar"ras (?), n. See
Trass. [Obs.]
Tarre (?), v. t. [OE.
tarien, terien, to irritate, provoke, AS.
tergan to pull, pluck, torment; probably akin to E.
tear, v.t. \'fb63. Cf. Tarry,
v.] To set on, as a dog; to incite.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Tar"ri*ance (?), n. The act or
time of tarrying; delay; lateness. [Archaic]
Shak.
And after two days' tarriance there, returned.
Tennyson.
Tar"ri*er (?), n. One who, or
that which, tarries.
Tar"ri*er, n. (Zo\'94l.) A
kind of dig; a terrier. [Obs.]
Tar"rock (?), n. [Greenland
tattarock.] (Zo\'94l.) (a)
The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.
(b) The common guillemot. [Prov.
Eng.] (c) The common tern.
Tar"ry (?), a. [From
Tar, n.] Consisting of, or covered
with, tar; like tar.
Tar"ry (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Tarried
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tarrying.] [OE. tarien to
irritate (see Tarre); but with a change of sense
probably due to confusion with OE. targen to delay,
OF. targier, fr. (assumed) LL. tardicare,
fr. L. tardare to make slow, to tarry, fr.
tardus slow. Cf. Tardy.] 1.
To stay or remain behind; to wait.
Tarry ye for us, until we come again.
Ex. xxiv. 14.
2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to
loiter.
Come down unto me, tarry not.
Gen. xic. 9.
One tarried here, there hurried one.
Emerson.
3. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
Tarry all night, and wash your feet.
Gen. xix. 2.
Syn. -- To abide; continue; lodge; await; loiter.
Tar"ry, v. t. 1. To delay; to
defer; to put off. [Obs.]
Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow.
Chaucer.
2. To wait for; to stay or stop for.
[Archaic]
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs
tarry the grinding.
Shak.
He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further
question.
Sir W. Scott.
Tar"ry, n. Stay; stop; delay.
[Obs.]
E. Lodge.
Tar"sal (?), a. (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the foot or
eye). -- n. A tarsal bone or
cartilage; a tarsale.
Tarsal tetter (Med.), an eruptive
disease of the edges of the eyelids; a kind of
bleareye.
Tar"sal (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Tercel.
[Obs.]
\'d8Tar*sa"le (?), n.; pl.
Tarsalia (#). [NL.]
(Anat.) One of the bones or cartilages of the
tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the
metatarsals.
Tarse (?), n. [Cf.
Tassel, Tiercel.] (Falconry)
The male falcon.
Tarse (?), n. [Cf. F.
tarse.] (Anat.) tarsus.
Tar*sec"to*my (?), n.
[Tarsus + Gr.
(Surg.) The operation of excising one or more of
the bones of the tarsus.
Tar"sel (?), n. A male hawk.
See Tercel. [Obs.]
\'d8Tar"si (?), n.,
pl. of Tarsus.
{ \'d8Tar"si*a (?),
\'d8Tar`si*a*tu"ra (?), } n.
[It.] A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed
in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and
arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes,
fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces
of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of
walnut wood.
Tar"si*er (?), n. [Cf. F.
tarsier.] See Tarsius.
\'d8Tar"si*us (?), n. [NL. See
Tarsus.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of
nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a
long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also
malmag, spectral lemur,
podji, and tarsier.
Tar"so- (?). A combining form used in
anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation
to, the tarsus; as,
tarsometatarsus.
Tar`so*met`a*tar"sal (?), a.
(Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to both the
tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal
articulations. (b) Of or pertaining to
the tarsometatarsus.
\'d8Tar`so*met`a*tar"sus (?), n.;
pl. Tarsometatarsi (#).
[NL.] (Anat.) The large bone next the
foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the
distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.
Tar*sor"rha*phy (?), n.
[Tarsus + Gr.
(Surg.) An operation to diminish the size of the
opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding
cicatrices.
Tar*sot"o*my (?), n.
[Tarsus + Gr.
(Surg.) The operation of cutting or removing the
tarsal cartilages.
Tar"sus (?), n.; pl.
Tarsi (#). [NL., fr. Gr. Tarse.] 1. (Anat.)
(a) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part
of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man
of seven short bones. (b) A plate of dense
connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many
animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and
tarsal plate.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The foot of an insect or a
crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.
Tart (?), a. [AS.
teart. \'fb63. Cf. Tear, v.
t.] 1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour;
as, a tart apple.
2. Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a
tart reply; tart language; a tart
rebuke.
Why art thou tart, my brother?
Bunyan.
Tart, n. [OE. tarte, F.
tarte; perhaps originally the same word as
tourte, LL. torta, fr. L.
tortus, p.p. of torquere to twist, bend,
wind, because tarts were originally made of a twisted shape. Cf.
Torture, n.] A species of small
open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a
sort of fruit pie.
Tar"tan (?), n. [F.
tiretane linsey-woolsey, akin to Sp.
tirita\'a4a a sort of thin silk; cf. Sp.
tiritar to shiver or shake with cold.]
Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of
various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence,
any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar
pattern.
MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it,
when it does not warm to the tartan.
Sir W. Scott.
The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of
London with hatred.
Macaulay.
Tar"tan, n. [F. tartane, or
Sp., Pg., or It. tartana; all perhaps of Arabic
origin.] (Naut.) A small coasting vessel,
used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen
sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.
Tar"tar (?), n. [F.
tartre (cf. Pr. tartari, Sp., Pg., & It.
tartaro, LL. tartarum, LGr. 1. (Chem.) A
reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially
of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of
tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc.,
and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also
argol, wine stone,
etc.
2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth,
consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of
lime.
Cream of tartar. (Chem.) See under
Cream. -- Tartar emetic (Med.
Chem.), a double tartrate of potassium and basic
antimony. It is a poisonous white crystalline substance having a
sweetish metallic taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and
emetic.
Tar"tar (?), n. 1.
[Per. T\'bet\'ber, of Tartar origin.]
A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any
one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin,
inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly
but less usually, Tatar.
2. A person of a keen, irritable temper.
To catch a tartar, to lay hold of, or
encounter, a person who proves too strong for the assailant.
[Colloq.]
Tar"tar, a. Of or pertaining to Tartary
in Asia, or the Tartars.
Tar"tar, n. [Cf. F.
tartare.] See Tartarus.
Shak.
Tar"tar*a`ted (?), a.
(Chem.) Tartrated.
{ Tar*ta"re*an (?), Tar*ta"re*ous
(?), } a. [L.
tartareus: cf. F. tartar\'82en.]
Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
Tar*ta"re*ous, a. [Cf. 1st
Tartarous.] 1. Consisting of tartar;
of the nature of tartar.
2. (Bot.) Having the surface rough and
crumbling; as, many lichens are
tartareous.
{ Tar*ta"ri*an (?), Tar*tar"ic
(?), } a. Of or pertaining to
Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
Tartarian lamb (Bot.), Scythian
lamb. See Barometz.
Tar*ta"ri*an (?), n.
(Bot.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as
the Black Tartarian, or the White
Tartarian.
Tar*tar"ic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from,
or resembling, tartar.
Tartaric acid. (a) An acid widely
diffused throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes,
mountain-ash berries, etc., and obtained from tartar as a white
crystalline substance, C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2, having
a strong pure acid taste. It is used in medicine, in dyeing,
calico printing, photography, etc., and also as a substitute for
lemon juice. Called also dextro-tartaric
acid. (b) By extension, any one of
the series of isomeric acids (racemic acid, levotartaric acid,
inactive tartaric acid) of which tartaric acid proper is the
type.
Tar"tar*ine (?), n. (Old
Chem.) Potassium carbonate, obtained by the
incineration of tartar. [Obs.]
Tar"tar*ize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tartarized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tartarizing
(?).] [Cf. F.
tartariser.] (Chem.) To
impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar.
[R.]
Tartarized antimony (Med. Chem.),
tartar emetic.
Tar"tar*ize (?), v. t. To cause
to resemble the Tartars and their civilization, as by
conquest.
Tar"tar*ous (?), a. [Cf. F.
tartareux.] Containing tartar; consisting
of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
Tar"tar*ous (?), a. Resembling,
or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured; irritable.
The Tartarous moods of common men.
B. Jonson.
Tar"ta*rum (?), n.
(Chem.) See 1st Tartar.
Tar"ta*rus (?), n. [L., from
Gr. (Class. Myth.) The infernal
regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as
heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of
punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets,
also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades,
or the Lower World in general.
Tar"ta*ry (?), n.
Tartarus. [Obs.]
Spenser.
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Tar*ti"ni's tones` (?). [From
Tartini, an Italian violinist, who discovered them in
1754.] See the Note under Tone.
Tart"ish (?), a. Somewhat
tart.
Tart"let (?), n. A small
tart.
V. Knox.
Tart"ly, adv. In a tart manner; with
acidity.
Tart"ness, n. The quality or state of
being tart.
Syn. -- Acrimony; sourness; keenness; poignancy; severity;
asperity; acerbity; harshness. See Acrimony.
Tar*tral"ic (?), a. [From
Tartar the chemical compound.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white
amorphous deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; --
called also ditartaric,
tartrilic, or tartrylic
acid.
Tar*tram"ate (?), n.
(Chem.) A salt of tartramic acid.
Tar*tram"ic (?), a.
[Tarto- + amic.]
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an
acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of tartaric
acid.
Tar*tram"ide (?), n.
[Tarto- + amide.]
(Chem.) An acid amide derivative of tartaric
acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Tar"trate (?), n. [Cf. F.
tartrate.] (Chem.) A salt of
tartaric acid.
Tar"tra`ted (?), a. (Med.
Chem.) Containing, or derived from, tartar; combined
with tartaric acid.
Tar"tra*zine (?), n.
[Tartaric + hydrazine.]
(Chem.) An artificial dyestuff obtained as an
orange-yellow powder, and regarded as a phenyl hydrazine
derivative of tartaric and sulphonic acids.
Tar*trel"ic (?), a. [From
Tartar the chemical compound.] (Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an anhydride,
C4H4O5, of tartaric acid, obtained as a white
crystalline deliquescent substance.
Tar"tro-. A combining form (also used adjectively)
used in chemistry to denote the presence of tartar or
of some of its compounds or
derivatives.
Tar"tro*nate (?), n.
(Chem.) A salt of tartronic acid.
Tar*tron"ic (?), a.
[Tartro- + malonic.]
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an
organic acid (called also hydroxy malonic acid)
obtained, by reducing mesoxalic acid, as a white crystalline
substance.
Tar"tro*nyl (?), n.
[Tartronic + -yl.]
(Chem.) A hypothetical radical constituting the
characteristic residue of tartronic acid and certain of its
derivatives.
Tar`tro*vin"ic (?), a.
[Tartro- + vinic.]
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a
certain acid composed of tartaric acid in combination with ethyl,
and now called ethyltartaric acid.
{ Tar*tuffe", Tar*tufe" }
(?), n. [F. tartufe.]
A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in
Fiction.
{ Tar*tuff"ish, Tar*tuf"ish, }
a. Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical.
Sterne.
Tar"weed` (?), n. (Bot.)
A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants
of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia,
Hemizonia, and Madia.
Tas (?), n. [F.] A
heap. [Obs.] \'bdThe tas of bodies
slain.\'b8
Chaucer.
Tas, v. t. To tassel.
[Obs.] \'bdA purse of leather tassed with
silk.\'b8
Chaucer.
Tas"co (?), n. [Cf. Sp.
tasconio.] A kind of clay for making
melting pots.
Percy Smith.
Ta*sim"er (?), n. [Gr. -meter.] (Physics) An instrument
for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid
bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button
of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance
of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the
movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the
strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a
sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute
changes of temperature.
T. A. Edison.
Task (?), n. [OE.
taske, OF. tasque, F. t\'83che,
for tasche, LL. tasca, taxa, fr.
L. taxare to rate, appraise, estimate. See
Tax, n. & v.] 1.
Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite
quantity or amount.
Ma task of servile toil.
Milton.
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close.
Longfellow.
2. Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
Atterbury.
To take to task. See under
Take.
Syn. -- Work; labor; employment; business; toil; drudgery;
study; lesson; stint.
Task, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tasked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tasking.] 1. To impose a task
upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty
to.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
Dryden.
2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to
tax.
3. To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Too impudent to task me with those errors.
Beau. & Fl.
Task"er (?), n. 1. One
who imposes a task.
2. One who performs a task, as a day-laborer.
[R.]
3. A laborer who receives his wages in kind.
[Scot.]
Task"mas`ter (?), n. One who
imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is
to assign tasks; an overseer.
Ex. i. 11.
All is, if I have grace to use it so,
As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.
Milton.
Task"work` (?), n. Work done as
a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.
Tas"let (?), n. [See
Tasse a piece of armor.] A piece of armor
formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.
Tas*ma"ni*an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native
or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the
plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is
now extinct.
Tasmanain cider tree. (Bot.) See
the Note under Eucalyptus. -- Tasmanain
devil. (Zo\'94l.) See under
Devil. -- Tasmanain wolf
(Zo\'94l.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; --
called also zebra wolf. See Zebra
wolf, under Wolf.
Tasse (?), n. [OF.
tassette.] A piece of armor for the thighs,
forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
tasse was a plate of iron
swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were
also called by this name.
Tas"sel (?), n.
(Falconry) A male hawk. See
Tercel.
Tas"sel, n. [See Teasel.]
A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
Tas"sel, n. [OE., a fastening of a
mantle, OF. tassel a fastening, clasp, F.
tasseau a bracket, Fr. L. taxillus a little
die, dim. of talus a die of a longish shape, rounded
on two sides and marked only on the other four, a knuckle
bone.] 1. A pendent ornament, attached to the
corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft
of loose threads or cords.
2. The flower or head of some plants, esp. when
pendent.
And the maize field grew and ripened, Till it stood in all the
splendor
Of its garments green and yellow,
Of its tassels and its plumage.
Longfellow.
3. A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a
book to be put between the leaves.
4. (Arch.) A piece of board that is laid
upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the
ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
Tassel flower (Bot.), a name of
several composite plants of the genus Cineraria,
especially the C. sconchifolia, and of the blossoms
which they bear.
Tas"sel, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tasseled (?) or Tasselled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Tasseling or
Tasselling.] To put forth a tassel or
flower; as, maize tassels.
Tas"sel, v. t. To adorn with
tassels.
Chaucer.
Tas"set (?), n. [See
Tasse.] A defense for the front of the thigh,
consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on
the lower edge of the corselet.<-- same as tasse? -->
Tast"a*ble (?), a. Capable of
worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.
Taste (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tasted (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Tasting.]
[OE. tasten to feel, to taste, OF.
taster, F. tater to feel, to try by the
touch, to try, to taste, (assumed) LL. taxitare, fr.
L. taxare to touch sharply, to estimate. See
Tax, v. t.] 1. To try by
the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
[Obs.]
Chapman.
Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
Chaucer.
2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive
the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity
into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water
that was made wine.
John ii. 9.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he
became incapable of pity or remorse.
Gibbon.
3. To try by eating a little; to eat a small
quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey.
1 Sam. xiv. 29.
4. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to
essay; to experience; to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man.
Heb. ii. 9.
5. To partake of; to participate in; -- usually
with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt taste
No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
Milton.
Taste, v. i. 1. To try food
with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor
of anything; as, to taste of each kind of
wine.
2. To have a smack; to excite a particular
sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is
distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as,
this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of
garlic.
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason
Shall to the king taste of this action.
Shak.
3. To take sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
Dryden.
4. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to
partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty.
Waller.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Shak.
Taste, n. 1. The act of
tasting; gustation.
2. A particular sensation excited by the
application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of
any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor;
as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter
taste; an acid taste; a sweet
taste.
3. (Physiol.) The one of the five senses
by which certain properties of bodies (called their
taste, savor, flavor) are
ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; --
formerly with of, now with for; as, he
had no taste for study.
I have no taste
Of popular applause.
Dryden.
5. The power of perceiving and relishing excellence
in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order,
congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes
excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters;
critical judgment; discernment.
6. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing,
refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music
composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad
taste.
7. Essay; trial; experience; experiment.
Shak.
8. A small portion given as a specimen; a little
piece tastted of eaten; a bit.
Bacon.
9. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Syn. -- Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout.
-- Taste, Sensibility,
Judgment. Some consider taste as a mere
sensibility, and others as a simple exercise of
judgment; but a union of both is requisite to the
existence of anything which deserves the name. An original sense
of the beautiful is just as necessary to \'91sthetic judgments,
as a sense of right and wrong to the formation of any just
conclusions or moral subjects. But this \'bdsense of the
beautiful\'b8 is not an arbitrary principle. It is under the
guidance of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness with the
progress of the individual and of society at large; it has its
laws, which are seated in the nature of man; and it is in the
development of these laws that we find the true \'bdstandard of
taste.\'b8
What, then, is taste, but those internal powers,
Active and strong, and feelingly alive
To each fine impulse? a discerning sense
Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross
In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold,
Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow,
But God alone, when first his active hand
Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
Akenside.
Taste of buds, Taste of
goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped end
organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They are made up
of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat like leaves in a
bud.
Taste"ful (?), a. 1.
Having a high relish; savory. \'bdTasteful
herbs.\'b8
Pope.
2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance
with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful
drapery.
-- Taste"ful*ly, adv. --
Taste"ful*ness, n.
Taste"less, a. 1. Having no
taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless
fruit.
2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good
taste; as, a tasteless age.
Orrery.
3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a
tasteless arrangement of drapery.
-- Taste"less*ly, adv. --
Taste"less*ness, n.
Tast"er (?), n. 1. One
who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to
ascertain its quality.
Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat.
Dryden.
2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted,
as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
3. (Zo\'94l.) One of a peculiar kind of
zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They
somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of
mouths. See Siphonophora.
Tast"i*ly (?), adv. In a tasty
manner.
Tast"ing, n. The act of perceiving or
tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we
perceive or distinguish savors.
\'d8Tas"to (?), n. [It.]
(Mus.) A key or thing touched to produce a
tone.
\'d8Tasto solo, single touch; -- in old music,
a direction denoting that the notes in the bass over or under
which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other
chords than unisons and octaves.
Tast"y (?), a.
[Compar. Tastier (?);
superl. Tastiest.] 1.
Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a
tasty woman. See Taste, n.,
5.<-- not used in that sense now. -->
2. Being in conformity to the principles of good
taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a
tasty dress.
Tat (?), n. [Hind.
t\'bet.] Gunny cloth made from the fiber of
the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.
[India]
Tat, n. [Hind.
tatt.] (Zo\'94l.) A
pony. [India]
Ta*tau"pa (?), n. [From the
native name.] (Zo\'94l.) A South American
tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
Tatch (?), n. [F.
tache spot. See Techy.] A spot or
stain; also, a trick. [Obs.]
Sir T. Elyot.
Tath (?), obs. 3d pers.
sing. pres. of Ta, to take.
Tath, n. [Prov. E.; of Scand. origin;
cf. Icel. ta dung, ta the grass of a
manured pasture, te to manure. \'fb58. Cf.
Ted.] 1. Dung, or droppings of
cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings
of cattle in a pasture. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Tath, v. t. To manure (land) by
pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Ta*tou" (?), n. [Cf.
Tatouay.] (Zo\'94l.) The giant
armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South
America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It
is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead
animals, and sometimes invades human graves.
Tat"ou*ay (?), n. [Of Brazilian
origin; cf. Pg. tatu, F. tatou.]
(Zo\'94l.) An armadillo (Xenurus
unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America.
It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly
square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered,
and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are
very large. Called also tatouary, and
broad-banded armadillo.
Tat"ou*hou (?), n. [Cf.
Tatouay.] (Zo\'94l.) The
peba.
Tatt (?), v. t. & i. To make
(anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as,
tatted edging.
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\'d8Tat"ta (?), n. [Hind.
, t\'bet\'c6.] A
bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over
which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool
the air as it enters. [India]
Tat"ter (?), n. One who makes
tatting.
Caulfield & S. (Doct. of Needlework).
Tat"ter (?), n. [Icel.
t\'94tur, t\'94ttur, pl.
t\'94trar, ; cf. Norw.
totra, pl. totror, LG. taltern
tatters. \'fb240.] A rag, or a part torn and hanging;
-- chiefly used in the plural.
Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags.
Shak.
Tat"ter, v. t. [p. p.
Tattered (?).] To rend or tear
into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an
adjective.
Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair.
Pope.
Tat`ter*de*mal"ion (?), n.
[Tatter + OF. desmaillier to break the
meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon long clothes,
swadding clothes, F. maillot. See Tatter, and
Mail armor.] A ragged fellow; a
ragamuffin.
L'Estrange.
Tat"ting (?), n. A kind of lace
made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.
Tatting shuttle, the shuttle on which the
thread used in tatting is wound.
Tat"tle (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Tattled
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tattling
(?).] [Akin to OE. tateren,
LG. tateln, D. tateren to stammer, and
perhaps to E. titter.] 1. To
prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to
chat.
The tattling quality of age, which is always
narrative.
Dryden.
2. To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a
talebearer; as, a tattling girl.
Tat"tle, n. Idle talk or chat; trifling
talk; prate.
[They] told the tattle of the day.
Swift.
Tat"tler (?), n. 1.
One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.
Jer. Taylor.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species
of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus
Totanus.
T. melanoleucus), the smaller tattler, or
lesser yellowlegs (T. flavipes), the solitary tattler
(T. solitarius), and the semipalmated tattler, or
willet. The first two are called also
telltale, telltale spine,
telltale tattler,
yellowlegs, yellowshanks,
and yelper.
Tat"tler*y (?), n. Idle talk or
chat; tittle-tattle.
Tat"tling (?), a. Given to idle
talk; apt to tell tales. --
Tat"tling*ly, adv.
Tat*too" (?), n. [Earlier
taptoo, D. taptoe; tap a tap,
faucet + toe to, shut (i. e., the taps, or
drinking houses, shut from the soldiers).]
(Mil.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or
bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to
repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in
camp.
The Devil's tattoo. See under
Devil.
Tat*too", v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tattooed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tattooing.] [Of Polynesian
origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu
puncturation (in Otaheite).] To color, as the flesh,
by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures
which can not be washed out.
Tat*too", n.; pl. Tattoos
(. An indelible mark or figure made by
puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the
punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various
barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by
some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.
Ta*tu" (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
Same as Tatou.
Ta*tu"si*id (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any armadillo of the family
Tatusiid\'91, of which the peba and mule armadillo are
examples. Also used adjectively.
Tau (?), n. [Gr.
tay^ the letter T).]
(Zo\'94l.) The common American toadfish; -- so
called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau
(
Tau cross. See Illust. 6, of
Cross.
Taught (?), a. See
Taut.
Totten.
Taught, imp. & p. p. of
Teach. [AS. imp. t, p.p.
get.] See Teach.
Taunt (?), a. [Cf. OF.
tant so great, F. tant so much, L.
tantus of such size, so great, so much.]
(Naut.) Very high or tall; as, a ship with
taunt masts.
Totten.
Taunt (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Taunted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Taunting.] [Earlier, to
tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to tempt, to try, for
tenter. See Tempt.] To reproach
with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer
at; to flout.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her.
Shak.
Syn. -- To deride; ridicule; mock; jeer; flout; revile. See
Deride.
Taunt, n. Upbraiding language; bitter or
sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
With scoffs, and scorns, and contemelious
taunts.
Shak.
With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest.
Prior.
Taunt"er (?), n. One who
taunts.
Taunt"ing, a. & n. from Taunt,
v.
Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection.
Burke.
Taunt"ing*ly, adv. In a taunting
manner.
Taunt"ress (?), n. A woman who
taunts.
Taur (?), n. [L.
Taurus.] The constellation Taurus.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Tau`ri*cor"nous (?), a. [L.
tauricornis; taurus a bull +
cornu a horn.] (Zo\'94l.) Having
horns like those of a bull.
Sir T. Browne.
Tau`ri*dor" (?), n. [See
Toreador.] A bull
Sir W. Scott.
Tau"ri*form (?), a. [L.
tauriformis; taurus a bull +
-form: cf. F. tauriforme.]
Having the form of a bull.
Tau"rine (?), a. [L.
taurinus, fr. taurus a bull. See
Taurus.] (Zo\'94l.) Of or
pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
Tau"rine (?), n. [So named
because it was discovered in the bile of the ox. See
Taurus.] (Physiol. Chem.) A body
occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the
lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is
found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can
be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in
colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially
characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being
chemically amido-isethionic acid, C
Tau`ro*cho"late (?), n.
(Physiol. Chem.) A salt of taurocholic acid;
as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human
bile.
Tau`ro*chol"ic (?), a.
[Taurine + cholic.]
(Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a
conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of
taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in
that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence
appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water
and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.
{ Tau"ro*col (?), Tau`ro*col"la
(?), } n. [NL.
taurocolla, fr. Gr. taurocolle.] Glue made from a bull's
hide.
Tau`ro*ma"chi*an (?), a. [See
Tauromachy.] Of or pertaining to
bullfights. -- n. A
bullfighter.
Tau*rom"a*chy (?), n. [Gr. Bullfighting.
\'d8Tau"rus (?), n. [L., akin
to Gr. steer. See Steer a young
ox.] 1. (Astron.) (a) The
Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac,
which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus
[ (b) A zodiacal
constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the
Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the
remarkably bright Aldebaran.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of ruminants
comprising the common domestic cattle.
Tau*ryl"ic (?), a. [L.
taurus a bull + E. phenylic.]
(Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid
found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with
cresol.
Taut (?), a. [Dan.
t\'91t; akin to E. tight. See
Tight.] 1. (Naut.) Tight;
stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly
strained.
2. Sung; close; firm; secure.
Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term
for an officer who is severe in discipline.
Tau`te*gor"ic*al (?), a. [Gr.
Allegory.] Expressing the same thing with
different words; -- opposed to allegorical.
[R.]
Coleridge.
Tau"to*chrone (?), n. [Gr. tautochrone.] (Math.) A curved
line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action
of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same
time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an
inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a
tautochrone.
Tau*toch"ro*nous (?), a.
(Math.) Occupying the same time; pertaining to,
or having the properties of, a tautochrone.
Tau*tog" (?), n. [The pl. of
taut, the American Indian name, translated by Roger
Williams sheep's heads, and written by him
tauta\'a3og.] (Zo\'94l.) An
edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga
onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When
adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with
greenish gray. Called also blackfish,
oyster fish, salt-water
chub, and moll.
[Written also tautaug.]
Tau`to*log"ic (?), a.
Tautological.
Tau`to*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf.
F. tautologique.] Involving tautology;
having the same signification; as, tautological
expression. --
Tau`to*log"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the
same sound or syllable many times.
Tau*tol"o*gist (?), n. One who
uses tautological words or phrases.
Tau*tol"o*gize (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Tautologized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tautologizing
(?).] To repeat the same thing in
different words.
Tau*tol"o*gous (?), a. [Gr.
Repeating the same thing in different words;
tautological. [R.]
Tooke.
Tau*tol"o*gy (?), n. [L.
tautologia, Gr. tautologie.] (Rhet.) A
repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless
repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a
representation of anything as the cause, condition, or
consequence of itself, as in the following lines: --
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day.
Addison.
Syn. -- Repetition. -- Tautology,
Repetition. There may be frequent repetitions
(as in legal instruments) which are warranted either by necessity
or convenience; but tautology is always a fault, being
a sameness of expression which adds nothing to the sense or the
sound.
Tau`to*mer"ic (?), a.
(Chem.) Relating to, or characterized by,
tautomerism.
Tau*tom"er*ism (?), n. [Gr.
(Chem.) The condition, quality, or relation of
metameric substances, or their respective derivatives, which are
more or less interchangeable, according as one form or the other
is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the
lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit
tautomerism.
{ Tau`to*ou"si*an (?),
Tau`to*ou"si*ous (?), } a.
[Gr. Having the same essence; being identically
of the same nature. [R.]
Cudworth.
Tau`to*phon"ic*al (?), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating
the same sound.
Tau*toph"o*ny (?), n. [Gr. Repetition of
the same sound.
Tau`to*zon"al (?), a. [Gr. zonal.]
(Crystallog.) Belonging to the same zone; as,
tautozonal planes.
Tav"ern (?), n. [OE.
taverne, F. taverne, from L.
taberna a hut, booth, tavern. Cf. Table,
Tabernacle.] A public house where travelers
and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals;
an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house
licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.
Tav"ern*er (?), n. [F.
tavernier, L. tabernarius.] One
who keeps a tavern.
Chaucer. Camden.
Tav"ern*ing, n. A feasting at
taverns. [Obs.] \'bdThe misrule of our
tavernings.\'b8
Bp. Hall.
Tav"ern*man (?), n.; pl.
Tavernmen (. The keeper of a
tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]
Taw (?), n. Tow.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Taw, v. t. [Cf. Tew to tow,
Tow, v. t.] To push; to tug; to
tow. [Obs.]
Drayton.
Taw (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Tawed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tawing.] [OE.
tawen, tewen, AS. t\'bewian to
prepare; cf. D. touwen, Goth. t\'c7wa
order, taujan to do, and E. tool. \'fb64.
Cf. 1st Tew, Tow the coarse part of
flax.] 1. To prepare or dress, as hemp, by
beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
2. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep,
lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them
with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching
them.
Taw, n. [Cf. AS. t\'bew
instrument.] 1. A large marble to be played
with; also, a game at marbles.
2. A line or mark from which the players begin a
game of marbles. [Colloq. U.S.]
Taw"dri*ly (?), adv. In a
tawdry manner.
Taw"dri*ness, n. Quality or state of
being tawdry.
A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by
tawdriness of dress.
Richardson.
Taw"dry (?), a.
[Compar. Tawdrier (?);
superl. Tawdriest.] [Said to
be corrupted from Saint Audrey, or Auldrey,
meaning Saint Ethelreda, implying therefore,
originally, bought at the fair of St. Audrey, where laces and gay
toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in Isle Ely, and
probably at other places, on the day of the saint, which was the
17th of October.] 1. Bought at the festival
of St. Audrey. [Obs.]
And gird in your waist,
For more fineness, with a tawdry lace.
Spenser.
2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or
elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace;
cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry
feathers; tawdry colors.<-- tacky? -->
He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and
tawdry courtiers.
Spectator.
Taw"dry, n.; pl. Tawdries
(. A necklace of a rural fashion, bought
at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
[Obs.]
Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make
Them tawdries for their necks.
Drayton.
Taw"er (?), n. One who taws; a
dresser of white leather.
Taw"er*y (?), n. A place where
skins are tawed.
Taw"ni*ness (?), n. The quality
or state of being tawny.
Taw"ny (?), a.
[Compar. Tawnier (?);
superl. Tawniest.] [F.
tann\'82, p.p. of tanner to tan. See
Tan, v. t. & n. Cf.
Tenn\'82.] Of a dull yellowish brown color,
like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as,
tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny
lion. \'bdA leopard's tawny and spotted
hide.\'b8
Longfellow.
Taws (?), n. [See Taw
to beat.] A leather lash, or other instrument of
punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also
tawes, tawis, and
tawse.] [Scot.]
Never use the taws when a gloom can do the
turn.
Ramsay.
Tax (?), n. [F.
taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L.
taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure,
value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to
touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task,
Taste.] 1. A charge, especially a
pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
Specifically: --
(a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or
property for the support of a government.
A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors,
proverbially the most rapacious.
Macaulay.
(b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things,
as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land
tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages,
and the like. Taxes are annual or
perpetual, direct or
indirect, etc.
(c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a
society to defray its expenses.
2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a
contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a
subject.
3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge;
as, a heavy tax on time or health.
4. Charge; censure. [Obs.]
Clarendon.
5. A lesson to be learned; a task.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low
tax. [Eng.]
Syn. -- Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate;
assessment; exaction; custom; demand.
<-- p. 1478 -->
Tax (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Taxed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Taxing.] [Cf. F.
taxer. See Tax, n.]
1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to
impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact
money from for the support of government.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride,
and folly than we are taxed by government.
Franklin.
2. (Law) To assess, fix, or determine
judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an
action in court.
3. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often
followed by with, rarely by of before an
indirect object; as, to tax a man with
pride.
I tax you, you elements, with unkindness.
Shak.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have
taxed their crimes.
Dryden.
Fear not now that men should tax thine honor.
M. Arnold.
Tax`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The
quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.
Tax"a*ble (?), a. 1.
Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of
taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable
commodities.
2. (Law) That may be legally charged by
a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as,
taxable costs.
-- Tax"a*ble*ness, n. --
Tax"a*bly, adv.
Tax`as*pid"e*an (?), a. [Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Having the posterior tarsal scales, or
scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of
certain birds.
Tax*a"tion (?), n. [F.
taxation, L. taxatio a valuing, estimation,
from L. taxare. See Tax.] 1.
The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the
subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a
corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of
revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
2. (Law) The act of taxing, or assessing
a bill of cost.
3. Tax; sum imposed. [R.]
Daniel.
4. Charge; accusation. [Obs.]
Shak.
Tax"el (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
The American badger.
\'d8Tax`e*op"o*da (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. -poda.]
(Paleon.) An order of extinct Mammalia found in
the Tertiary formations.
Tax"er (?), n. 1. One
who taxes.
2. One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate
the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and
measures is observed. [Camb. Univ., Eng.]
[Written also taxor.]
Tax"gath`er*er (?), n. One who
collects taxes or revenues. --
Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
Tax"i*arch (?), n. [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.) An Athenian
military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
Milford.
Tax"i*corn (?), n. [L.
taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F.
taxicorne.] (Zo\'94l.) One of a
family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antenn\'91 are
largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.
Tax`i*der"mic (?), a. [Cf. F.
taxidermique.] Of or pertaining to the art
of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.
Tax"i*der`mist (?), n. A person
skilled in taxidermy.
Tax"i*der`my (?), n. [Gr. taxidermie. See Tactics,
Tear, v. t.] The art of preparing,
preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent
their natural appearance, as for cabinets.
Tax"ine (?), n. [L.
taxus a yew.] (Chem.) A
poisonous alkaloid of bitter taste extracted from the leaves and
seeds of the European yew (Taxus baccata). Called also
taxia.<-- a mixture of compounds.
Taxine A has form. C35H47NO10
\'d8Tax"is (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr.
(Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor,
or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing
it.
Dunglison.
Tax"less, a. Free from taxation.
Tax*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] (Biol.)
Same as Taxonomy.
Tax`o*nom"ic (?), a. Pertaining
to, or involving, taxonomy, or the laws and principles of
classification; classificatory.
Tax*on"o*mist (?), n. One
skilled in taxonomy.
Tax*on"o*my (?), n. [Gr. That division of the
natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals
and plants; the laws or principles of classification.
Tax"or (?), n. [NL.]
Same as Taxer, n., 2.
Tax"pay`er (?), n. One who is
assessed and pays a tax.
Tay"ra (?), n. [From the native
name.] (Zo\'94l.) A South American
carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The
tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about
three feet. [Written also taira.]
Ta"zel (?), n. (Bot.)
The teasel. [Obs.]
\'d8Taz"za (?), n. [It.]
An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl,
resting on a pedestal and often having handles.
\'d8Tcha*wy"tcha (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The quinnat salmon.
[Local, U.S.]
T" cart` (?). See under T.
Tea (?), n. [Chin.
tsh\'be, Prov. Chin. te: cf. F.
th\'82.] 1. The prepared leaves of
a shrub, or small tree (Thea, ). The shrub is a native of China, but has been
introduced to some extent into some other countries.
Teas are classed as green or
black, according to their color or appearance, the
kinds being distinguished also by various other characteristic
differences, as of taste, odor, and the like. The color, flavor,
and quality are dependent upon the treatment which the leaves
receive after being gathered. The leaves for green tea are
heated, or roasted slightly, in shallow pans over a wood fire,
almost immediately after being gathered, after which they are
rolled with the hands upon a table, to free them from a portion
of their moisture, and to twist them, and are then quickly dried.
Those intended for black tea are spread out in the air for some
time after being gathered, and then tossed about with the hands
until they become soft and flaccid, when they are roasted for a
few minutes, and rolled, and having then been exposed to the air
for a few hours in a soft and moist state, are finally dried
slowly over a charcoal fire. The operation of roasting and
rolling is sometimes repeated several times, until the leaves
have become of the proper color. The principal sorts of green tea
are Twankay, the poorest kind; Hyson skin, the refuse of Hyson;
Hyson, Imperial, and Gunpowder, fine varieties; and Young Hyson,
a choice kind made from young leaves gathered early in the
spring. Those of black tea are Bohea, the poorest kind; Congou;
Oolong; Souchong, one of the finest varieties; and Pekoe, a
fine-flavored kind, made chiefly from young spring buds. See
Bohea, Congou, Gunpowder tea,
under Gunpowder, Hyson, Oolong, and
Souchong.
K. Johnson. Tomlinson.
Encyc. Brit.
2. A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling
water; as, tea is a common beverage.
3. Any infusion or decoction, especially when made
of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea;
chamomile tea; catnip tea.
4. The evening meal, at which tea is usually
served; supper.
Arabian tea, the leaves of Catha
edulis; also (Bot.), the plant itself. See
Kat. -- Assam tea, tea grown in
Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the
year 1850. -- Australian, Botany
Bay, tea (Bot.), a woody
clambing plant (Smilax glycyphylla). --
Brazilian tea. (a) The dried leaves of
Lantana pseodothea, used in Brazil as a substitute for
tea. (b) The dried leaves of
Stachytarpheta mutabilis, used for adulterating tea,
and also, in Austria, for preparing a beverage. --
Labrador tea. (Bot.) See under
Labrador. -- New Jersey tea
(Bot.), an American shrub, the leaves of which
were formerly used as a substitute for tea; redroot. See
Redroot. -- New Zealand tea.
(Bot.) See under New Zealand. --
Oswego tea. (Bot.) See Oswego
tea. -- Paraguay tea, mate. See 1st
Mate. -- Tea board, a board or tray
for holding a tea set. -- Tea bug
(Zo\'94l.), an hemipterous insect which injures
the tea plant by sucking the juice of the tender leaves. --
Tea caddy, a small box for holding tea. --
Tea chest, a small, square wooden case, usually
lined with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from
China. -- Tea clam (Zo\'94l.), a
small quahaug. [Local, U.S.] -- Tea
garden, a public garden where tea and other
refreshments are served. -- Tea plant
(Bot.), any plant, the leaves of which are used in
making a beverage by infusion; specifically, Thea
Chinensis, from which the tea of commerce is obtained.
-- Tea rose (Bot.), a delicate and
graceful variety of the rose (Rosa Indica, var.
odorata), introduced from China, and so named from its
scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. -- Tea
service, the appurtenances or utensils required for a
tea table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot,
milk pitcher, and sugar dish. -- Tea set, a
tea service. -- Tea table, a table on which
tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. -- Tea
taster, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea
by tasting. -- Tea tree (Bot.),
the tea plant of China. See Tea plant,
above.<-- In Australia and New Zealand, tea tree refers to a
tree or tall shrib, Leptospermum scoparium, having white
bell-shaped flowers. The leaves are used to prepare an infusion;
an oil, tea tree oil, is also derived, and claimed to have
therapeutic properties, as for healing burns of the skin. --> --
Tea urn, a vessel generally in the form of an urn
or vase, for supplying hot water for steeping, or infusing,
tea.
Tea, v. i. To take or drink tea.
[Colloq.]
Tea"ber`ry (?), n. (Bot.)
The checkerberry.
Teach (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Taught (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Teaching.]
[OE. techen, imp. taughte,
tahte, AS. t, imp.
t, to show, teach, akin to t\'becn
token. See Token.] 1. To impart the
knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as
knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as
true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to
teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to
teach morals.
If some men teach wicked things, it must be that
others should practice them.
South.
2. To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a
preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to
conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a
child or a class. \'bdHe taught his
disciples.\'b8
Mark ix. 31.
The village master taught his little school.
Goldsmith.
3. To accustom; to guide; to show; to
admonish.
I shall myself to herbs teach you.
Chaucer.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
Jer. ix. 5.
taught me Latin
grammar. In the passive construction, either of these objects may
be retained in the objective case, while the other becomes the
subject; as, I was taught Latin grammar by him; Latin
grammar was taught me by him.
Syn. -- To instruct; inform; inculcate; tell; guide;
counsel; admonish. See the Note under Learn.
Teach (?), v. i. To give
instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of
a preceptor.
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Chaucer.
The priests thereof teach for hire.
Micah iii. 11.
Teach"a*ble (?), a. Capable of
being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction;
docile.
We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and
teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of
God.
I. Watts.
Teach"a*ble*ness, n. Willingness to be
taught.
Teache (?), n. [Cf. Ir.
teaghaim, Gael. teasaich, to heat.]
(Sugar Works) One of the series of boilers in
which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the
last boiler of the series.
Ure.
Teach"er (?), n. 1.
One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or
occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.
2. One who instructs others in religion; a
preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches
without regular ordination.
The teachers in all the churches assembled.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Teach"ing, n. The act or business of
instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.
Syn. -- Education; instruction; breeding. See
Education.
Teach"less, a. Not teachable.
[R.]
Shelley.
Tea"cup` (?), n. A small cup
from which to drink tea.
Tea"cup`ful (?), n.; pl.
Teacupfuls (. As much as a
teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.
{ Tead, Teade } (?),
n. [L. taeda, teda.]
A torch. [Obs.] \'bdA burning
teade.\'b8
Spenser.
Tea"gle (?), n. [Cf.
Tackle.] A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a
crane; a lift. [Prov. Eng.]
Teague (?), n. [Cf. W.
taeog, taeawg, adj., rustic, rude, n., a
vassal, villain, pleasant, clown, Ir. th
rural, boorish.] An Irishman; -- a term used in
contempt.
Johnson.
Teak (?), n. [Malayalm
tekku.] (Bot.) A tree of East
Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely
strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and
other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.
[Written also teek.]
African teak, a tree (Oldfieldia
Africana) of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy and durable
wood; -- called also African oak. --
New Zeland teak, a large tree (Vitex
littoralis) of New Zeland; also, its hard, durable
timber.
Tea"ket`tle (?), n. A kettle in
which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.
Teal (?), n. [OE.
tele; akin to D. teling a generation,
production, teal, telen to breed, produce, and E.
till to cultivate. The English word probably once
meant, a brood or flock. See Till to cultivate.]
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of small
fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera
Querquedula and Nettion. The male is
handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on
the wings.
Anas crecca)
and the European blue-winged teal, or garganey (A.
querquedula or A. circia), are well-known
species. In America the blue-winged teal (A. discors),
the green-winged teal (A. Carolinensis), and the
cinnamon teal (A. cynaoptera) are common species,
valued as game birds. See Garganey.
Goose teal, a goslet. See
Goslet. -- Teal duck, the common
European teal.
Team (?), n. [OE.
tem, team, AS. te\'a0m,
offspring, progeny, race of descendants, family; akin to D.
toom a bridle, LG. toom progeny, team,
bridle, G. zaum a bridle, zeugen to beget,
Icel. taumr to rein, bridle, Dan. t\'94mme,
Sw. t\'94m, and also to E. tow to drag,
tug to draw. \'fb64. See Tug, and cf.
Teem to bear.] 1. A group of young
animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.
A team of ducklings about her.
Holland.
2. Hence, a number of animals moving
together.
A long team of snowy swans on high.
Dryden.
3. Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts
harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon,
sled, or the like. \'bdA team of dolphins.\'b8
Spenser.
To take his team and till the earth.
Piers Plowman.
It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a
team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring
farm to tug them out of the slough.
Macaulay.
4. A number of persons associated together in any
work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend
on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket,
football, rowing, etc.
5. (Zo\'94l.) A flock of wild
ducks.
6. (O. Eng. Law) A royalty or privilege
granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having,
keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and
villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and
chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
Burrill.
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Team (?), v. i. To engage in
the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like,
as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a
teamster.
<-- team up, to form one or more teams, either for
a common endeavor, or to compete in a contest. -->
Team, v. t. To convey or haul with a
team; as, to team lumber.
[R.]
Thoreau.
Teamed (?), a. Yoked in, or as
in, a team. [Obs.]
Let their teamed fishes softly swim.
Spenser.
Team"ing (?), n. 1.
The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or
carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.
2. (Manuf.) Contract work.
[R.]
Knight.
Team"ster (?), n. One who
drives a team.
Team"work` (?), n. Work done by
a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.
Tea"pot` (?), n. A vessel with
a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into
teacups.
Tea"poy (?), n. [Hind.
tip\'bei; Hind. tin there + Per.
p\'bee foot.] An ornamental stand, usually
with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.
Tear (?), n. [AS.
te\'a0r; akin to G. z\'84rhe, OHG.
zahar, OFries. & Icel. t\'ber, Sw.
t\'86r, Dan. taare, Goth. tagr,
OIr. d\'c7r, W. dagr, OW. dacr,
L. lacrima, lacruma, for older
dacruma, Gr. Lachrymose.] 1. (Physiol.)
A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in
small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the
eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their
motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal
duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other
causes, it overflows the lids.
And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear.
Chaucer.
2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of
fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of
some balsams or resins.
Let Araby extol her happy coast,
Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious
tears.
Dryden.
3. That which causes or accompanies tears; a
lament; a dirge. [R.] \'bdSome melodous
tear.\'b8
Milton.
Tear is sometimes used in the formation
of self-explaining compounds; as, tear-distilling,
tear-drop, tear-filled,
tear-stained, and the like.
Tear (?), v. t.
[imp. Tore (?),
((Obs. Tare) (; p.
p. Torn (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tearing.] [OE. teren, AS.
teran; akin to OS. farterian to destroy, D.
teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to
tear, zehren to consume, Icel. t\'91ra,
Goth. gata\'a1ran to destroy, Lith. dirti
to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear, Gr. dar to burst. \'fb63. Cf. Darn,
Epidermis, Tarre, Tirade.]
1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force;
to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to
tear a garment; to tear the skin or
flesh.
Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.
Shak.
2. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to
disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by
factions.
3. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force;
to sunder; as, a child torn from its
home.
The hand of fate
Hath torn thee from me.
Addison.
4. To pull with violence; as, to tear
the hair.
5. To move violently; to agitate. \'bdOnce I
loved torn ocean's roar.\'b8
Byron.
To tear a cat, to rant violently; to rave; --
especially applied to theatrical ranting.
[Obs.] Shak. -- To tear down,
to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down. -- To
tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip. --
To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as,
to tear out the eyes. -- To tear up,
to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as,
to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundation of
government or order.<-- tear sheet, (a) a sheet
usu. with performations, intended to be torn from a book or
booklet to be used for some purpose. (b) any sheet torn from a
publication. -->
Tear (?), v. i. 1. To
divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this
cloth tears easily.
2. To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush
with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
Tear (?), n. The act of
tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
Macaulay.
Wear and tear. See under Wear,
n.
Tear"er (?), n. One who tears
or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with
violence.
Tear"-fall`ing (?), a. Shedding
tears; tender. [Poetic]
\'bdTear-falling pity.\'b8
Shak.
Tear"ful (?), a. Abounding with
tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful
eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly,
adv. -- Tear"ful*ness,
n.
Tear"less, a. Shedding no tears; free
from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear"less*ly,
adv. -- Tear"less*ness,
n.
Tear"pit` (?), n. (Anat.)
A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and
antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being
opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
Tear"-thumb` (?), n.
(Bot.) A name given to several species of plants
of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute
reflexed prickles.
Tear"y (?), a. 1. Wet
with tears; tearful.
2. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
Tea"-sau`cer (?), n. A small
saucer in which a teacup is set.
Tease (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Teased (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Teasing.]
[AS. t to pluck, tease; akin to OD.
teesen, MHG. zeisen, Dan.
t\'91se, t\'91sse. \'fb58. Cf.
Touse.] 1. To comb or card, as wool
or flax. \'bdTeasing matted wool.\'b8
Wordsworth.
2. To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising
a nap; teasel.
3. (Anat.) To tear or separate into
minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to
harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by
jests and raillery; to plague.
Cowper.
He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts
directly opposed to his strongest inclinations.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- To vex; harass: annoy; disturb; irritate; plague;
torment; mortify; tantalize; chagrin. --
Tease, Vex. To tease is literally to
pull or scratch, and implies a prolonged annoyance in respect to
little things, which is often more irritating, and harder to
bear, than severe pain. Vex meant originally to seize
and bear away hither and thither, and hence, to disturb; as,
to vex the ocean with storms. This sense of the
term now rarely occurs; but vex is still a stronger
word than tease, denoting the disturbance or anger
created by minor provocations, losses, disappointments, etc. We
are teased by the buzzing of a fly in our eyes; we are
vexed by the carelessness or stupidity of our
servants.
Not by the force of carnal reason,
But indefatigable teasing.
Hudibras.
In disappointments, where the affections have been strongly
placed, and the expectations sanguine, particularly where the
agency of others is concerned, sorrow may degenerate into
vexation and chagrin.
Cogan.
Tease tenon (Joinery), a long tenon
at the top of a post to receive two beams crossing each other one
above the other.
Tease (?), n. One who teases or
plagues. [Colloq.]
Tea"sel (?), n. [OE.
tesel, AS. t, t, the
fuller's herb. See Tease.] [Written also
tassel, tazel, teasle,
teazel, and teazle.] 1.
(Bot.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus,
of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large
flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This
flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen
cloth.
Dipsacus pilosus, wild
teasel is D. sylvestris.
2. A bur of this plant.
3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for
teasels in dressing cloth.
Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in
which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen
cloth.
Tea"sel, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Teaseled (?) or Teaselled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Teaseling or
Teaselling.] To subject, as woolen
cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which
has an effect to raise a nap.
Tea"sel*er (?), n. One who uses
teasels for raising a nap on cloth. [Written also
teaseller, teasler.]
Tea"sel*ing, n. The cutting and
gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. [Written
also teaselling, teazling.]
Teas"er (?), n. 1. One
who teases or vexes.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A jager gull.
[Prov. Eng.]
Tea"sle (?), n. & v. t. See
Teasel.
Tea"spoon` (?), n. A small
spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for
other purposes.
Tea"spoon`ful (?), n.; pl.
Teaspoonfuls (. As much as
teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually
reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
Teat (?), n. [OE.
tete, titte, AS. tit,
titt; akin to LG. & OD. titte, D.
tet, G. zitze: cf. F. tette,
probably of Teutonic origin.] 1. The
protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast
of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
2. (Mach.) A small protuberance or
nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.
Teat"ed, a. Having protuberances
resembling the teat of an animal.
Teathe (?), n. & v. See
Tath. [Prov. Eng.]
Teat"ish (?), a. Peevish;
tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
Teaze"-hole` (?), n. [Corrupted
fr. F. tisard fire door.] (Glass
Works) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel
is introduced.
Tea"zel (?), n. & v. t. See
Teasel.
Tea"zer (?), n. [Corrupted fr.
F. tiser to feed a fire.] The stoker or
fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.
Tomlinson.
Tea"zle (?), n. & v. t. See
Teasel.
Te"beth (?), n. [Heb.]
The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering
to a part of December with a part of January.
Esther ii. 16.
Tech"i*ly (?), adv. In a techy
manner.
Tech"i*ness, n. The quality or state of
being techy.
Tech"nic (?), a.
Technical.
Tech"nic, n. [See Technical,
a.] 1. The method of performance
in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.
They illustrate the method of nature, not the
technic of a manlike Artificer.
Tyndall.
2. pl. Technical terms or objects;
things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.
Tech"nic*al (?), a. [Gr. text: cf. F.
technique.] Of or pertaining to the useful
or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like;
specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as,
the words of an indictment must be technical.
Blackstone.
Tech`ni*cal"i*ty (?), n.; pl.
Technicalities (. 1.
The quality or state of being technical;
technicalness.
2. That which is technical, or peculiar to any
trade, profession, sect, or the like.
The technicalities of the sect.
Palfrey.
Tech"nic*al*ly (?), adv. In a
technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used
in any art, business, or profession.
Tech"nic*al*ness, n. The quality or
state of being technical; technicality.
Tech"nic*als (?), n. pl. Those
things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or
profession; technical terms; technics.
Tech"ni*cist (?), n. One
skilled to technics or in one or more of the practical
arts.
Tech`ni*co*log"ic*al (?), a.
Technological; technical. [R.]
Dr. J. Scott.
Tech`ni*col"o*gy (?), n.
Technology. [R.]
Tech"nics (?), n. The doctrine
of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the
arts.
Tech`nique" (?), n. [F.]
Same as Technic, n.
Tech"nism (?), n.
Technicality.
Tech`no*log"ic (?), a.
Technological.
Tech`no*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf.
F. technologique.] Of or pertaining to
technology.
Tech*nol"o*gist (?), n. One
skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of
arts.
Tech*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy; cf. Gr. technologie.] Industrial science; the
science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts,
especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning,
weaving, metallurgy, etc.
Technology is not an independent science,
having a set of doctrines of its own, but consists of
applications of the principles established in the various
physical sciences (chemistry, mechanics, mineralogy, etc.) to
manufacturing processes.
Internat. Cyc.
Tech"y (?), a. [From OE.
tecche, tache, a habit, bad habit, vice,
OF. tache, teche, a spot, stain, blemish,
habit, vice, F. tache a spot, blemish; probably akin
to E. tack a small nail. See Tack a small
nail, and cf. Touchy.] Peevish; fretful;
irritable.
Tec`ti*branch (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used
adjectively.
\'d8Tec`ti*bran"chi*a (?), n. pl.
[NL.] Same as Tectibranchiata.
\'d8Tec`ti*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. tectus (p.p. of tegere to
cover) + Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An
order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are
usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold
of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and
delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble
shells are examples.
Tec`ti*bran"chi*ate (?), a. [L.
tectus (p.p. of tegere to cover) + E.
branchiate.] (Zo\'94l.) Having
the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the
Tectibranchiata. -- n. A
tectibranchiate mollusk.
Tect"ly (?), adv. [L.
tectus covered, fr. tegere to cover.]
Covertly; privately; secretly. [Obs.]
Holinshed.
Tec*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] (Biol.) A
division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic
individuality constituting the purely structural portion of
morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of
organic individuals of different orders, each organ being
considered an individual. See Promorphology, and
Morphon.
Tec*ton"ic (?), a. [L.
tectonicus, Gr. Of or pertaining to building or
construction; architectural.
Tec*ton"ics (?), n. The
science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or
other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for
which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic
sentiments and ideas.
Tec*to"ri*al (?), a. [L.
tectorius.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over
the organ of Corti in the internal ear.
\'d8Tec"tri*ces (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. tegere, tectum, to
cover.] (Zo\'94l.) The wing coverts of a
bird. See Covert, and Illust. of
Bird.
Te"cum (?), n. (Bot.)
See Tucum.
Ted (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Tedded (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tedding.] [Prob. fr. Icel.
te to spread manure, fr. ta manure;
akin to MHG. zetten to scatter, spread. \'fb58. Cf.
Teathe.] To spread, or turn from the swath,
and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in
the past participle.
The smell of grain or tedded grass.
Milton.
The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field.
Coleridge.
Ted"der (?), n. A machine for
stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.
Ted"der, n. [OE. \'fb64. See
Tether.] Same as Tether.
Ted"der, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Teddered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Teddering.] Same as
Tether.
\'d8Te` De"um (?). [L., from te
(accus. of tu thou) + Deum, accus. of
Deus God. See Thou, and
Deity.] 1. An ancient and celebrated
Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship, but often ascribed to
St. Ambrose; -- so called from the first words \'bdTe Deum
laudamus.\'b8 It forms part of the daily matins of the
Roman Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of
thanksgiving. In its English form, commencing with words, \'bdWe
praise thee, O God,\'b8 it forms a part of the regular morning
service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal
Church in America.
2. A religious service in which the singing of the
hymn forms a principal part.
Tedge (?), n. (Founding)
The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is
poured; runner, geat.
Te`di*os"i*ty (?), n.
Tediousness. [Obs.]
Te"di*ous (?), a. [L.
taediosus, fr. taedium. See
Tedium.] Involving tedium; tiresome from
continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
-- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. --
Te"di*ous*ness, n.
I see a man's life is a tedious one.
Shak.
I would not be tedious to the court.
Bunyan.
Syn. -- Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome.
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Te"di*um (?), n. [L.
taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies
one.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.
[Written also t\'91dium.]
Cowper.
To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all
manner of bams.
Prof. Wilson.
The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly
of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling.
Dickens.
Tee (?), n. [Cf. Icel.
tj\'be to show, mark.] (a) The
mark aimed at in curling and in quoits. (b)
The nodule of earth <-- or short peg stuck into the ground
--> from which the ball is struck in golf.
Tee, n. A short piece of pipe having a
lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a
right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the
letter T in shape.
Tee" i`ron (?). See T iron,
under T.
Teek (?), n. (Bot.)
See Teak. [Obs.]
Teel (?), n. Sesame.
[Sometimes written til.]
Teel oil, sesame oil.
Teel"seed` (?), n. The seed of
sesame.
Teem (?), v. t. [Icel.
t\'91ma to empty, from t\'d3mr empty; akin
to Dan. t\'94mme to empty, Sw. t\'94mma.
See Toom to empty.] 1. To pour; --
commonly followed by out; as, to teem out
ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Swift.
2. (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel,
from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
Teem, v. t. [See Tame,
a., and cf. Beteem.] To think
fit. [Obs. or R.]
G. Gifford.
Teem, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Teemed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Teeming.] [OE. temen, AS.
t\'c7man, t, from te\'a0m.
See Team.] 1. To bring forth young,
as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be
pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen.
Shak.
2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be
stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to
cover former villainy.
Sir W. Scott.
The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which
teem in our time.
F. Harrison.
Teem, v. t. To produce; to bring
forth. [R.]
That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker;
Each minute teems a new one.
Shak.
Teem"er (?), n. One who teems,
or brings forth.
Teem"ful (?), a. 1.
Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.]
2. Brimful. [Obs.]
Ainsworth.
Teem"ing, a. Prolific; productive.
Teeming buds and cheerful appear.
Dryden.
Teem"less, a. Not fruitful or prolific;
barren; as, a teemless earth.
[Poetic]
Dryden.
Teen (?), n. [OE.
tene, AS. te\'a2na reproach, wrong, fr.
te\'a2n to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth.
gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to
say. See Token.] Grief; sorrow; affiction;
pain. [Archaic]
Chaucer. Spenser.
With public toil and private teen
Thou sank'st alone.
M. Arnold.
Teen, v. t. [AS. te\'a2nian,
t, to slander, vex. \'fb64. See Teen,
n.] To excite; to provoke; to vex; to
affict; to injure. [Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
Teen, v. t. [See Tine to
shut.] To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Teen"age (?), n. The longer
wood for making or mending fences. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
Teend (?), v. t. & i. [See
Tinder.] To kindle; to burn.
[Obs.]
Herrick.
Teen"ful (?), a. Full of teen;
harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
Teens (?), n. pl. [See
Ten.] The years of one's age having the
termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending
with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
Tee"ny (?), a. Very small;
tiny. [Colloq.]
Teen"y (?), a. [See
Teen grief.] Fretful; peevish; pettish;
cross. [Prov. Eng.]
Tee*ong" (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The mino bird.
Teest (?), n. A tinsmith's
stake, or small anvil.
Tee"tan (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A pipit. [Prov.
Eng.]
Tee"tee (?), n. [Sp.
tit\'a1.] 1. (Zo\'94l.)
Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South
American monkeys belonging to Callithrix,
Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared
teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the
squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea).
Called also pinche, titi,
and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey,
under Squirrel.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A diving petrel of
Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).
Tee"ter (?), v. i. & t.
[imp. & p. p. Teetered
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Teetering.] [Prov. E. titter
to tremble, to seesaw; cf. Icel. titra to tremble,
OHG. zittar\'d3n, G. zittern.]
To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the
like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to
titter-totter. [U. S.]
[The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered
up and down.
H. W. Beecher.
Tee"ter-tail` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note
under Sandpiper.
Teeth (?), n., pl.
of Tooth.
Teeth (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Teethed
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Teething.] To breed, or grow,
teeth.
Teeth"ing (?), n. The process
of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their
issue through the gums; dentition.
Tee*to"tal (?), a. Entire;
total. [Colloq.]
Tee*to"tal*er (?), n. One
pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
Tee*to"tal*ism (?), n. The
principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from
intoxicating drinks.
Tee*to"tal*ly (?), adv.
Entirely; totally. [Colloq.]
Tee*to"tum (?), n. [For
T-totum. It was used for playing games of chance, and
was four-sided, one side having the letter T on it,
standing for Latin totum all, meaning, take all that
is staked, whence the name. The other three sides each had a
letter indicating an English or Latin word; as P meaning
put down, N nothing or L. nil, H
half. See Total.] A child's toy, somewhat
resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.
The staggerings of the gentleman . . . were like those of a
teetotum nearly spent.
Dickens.
Tee"tuck (?), n. The rock
pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
Tee"uck (?), n. The
lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]
Tee"wit (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The pewit. [Prov.
Eng.]
Teg (?), n. A sheep in its
second year; also, a doe in its second year. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
\'d8Teg"men (?), n.; pl.
Tegmina (#). [L., fr.
tegere, tectum, to cover.]
1. A tegument or covering.
2. (Bot.) The inner layer of the coating
of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.
3. (Zo\'94l.) One of the elytra of an
insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.
4. pl. (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Tectrices.
Teg*men"tal (?), a.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or
tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast;
the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
\'d8Teg*men"tum (?), n.; pl.
Tegmenta (#). [L., a
covering.] (Anat.) A covering; -- applied
especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper
part of the crura of the cerebrum.
Te*guex"in (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A large South American lizard
(Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long,
and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various
sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and
birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus
rufescens is called red teguexin.
\'d8Teg"u*la (?), n.; pl.
Tegul\'91 (#). [L., a tile, dim.
fr. tegere to cover.] (Zo\'94l.)
A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of
Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
Teg"u*lar (?), a. [LL.
tegularis, from L. tegula a tile. See
Tile.] Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling
a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a
tegular pavement. --
Teg"u*lar*ly, adv.
Teg`u*la"ted (?), a. Composed
of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; --
said of a kind of ancient armor.
Fairholt.
Teg"u*ment (?), n. [L.
tegumentum, from tegere to cover. See
Thatch, n., and cf. Detect,
Protect.] 1. A cover or covering; an
integument.
2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of
some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
Teg`u*men"ta*ry (?), a. [Cf. F.
t\'82gumentaire.] Of or pertaining to a
tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a
tegument or covering.
Te-hee" (?), n. & interj. A
tittering laugh; a titter. \'bd'Te-hee,' quoth
she.\'b8
Chaucer.
Te-hee", v. i. To titter; to laugh
derisively.
She cried, \'bdCome, come; you must not look grave upon
me.\'b8 Upon this, I te-heed.
Madame D'Arblay.
Teil (?), n. [OF.
teil, til, L. tilia.]
(Bot.) The lime tree, or linden; -- called also
teil tree.
Teind (?), n. [Cf. Icel.
t\'c6und. See Tithe.] A
tithe. [Scot.]
Jamieson.
Teine (?), n. See
Teyne. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Tein"land (?), n. (O. Eng.
Law) Land granted by the crown to a thane or
lord.
Burrill.
Tei"no*scope (?), n. [Gr. -scope.] (Physics)
An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct
the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of
objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; --
called also prism telescope.
Sir D. Brewster.
Teint (?), n. [F.
teint, teinte. See Tint.]
Tint; color; tinge, See Tint.
[Obs.]
Time shall . . . embrown the teint.
Dryden.
Tein"ture (?), n. [F. See
Tincture.] Color; tinge; tincture.
[Obs.]
Holland.
Tek (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
A Siberian ibex.
\'d8Tel`a*mo"nes (?), n. pl.
[L., pl. of telamo or telamon, Gr. (Arch.) Same as
Atlantes.
\'d8Tel*an`gi*ec"ta*sis (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Med.) Dilatation of the capillary vessels.
Tel*an`gi*ec"ta*sy (?), n.
(Med.) Telangiectasis.
Te"lar*ly (?), adv. In a
weblike manner. [Obs.] \'bdTelarly
interwoven.\'b8
Sir T. Browne.
Te"la*ry (?), a. [LL.
telaris, fr. L. tela a web. See
Toil a snare.] Of or pertaining to a web;
hence, spinning webs; retiary. \'bdPictures of
telary spiders.\'b8
Sir T. Browne.
Tel"e*du (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus
meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very
offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a
skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra,
and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking
badger, and stinkard.
Tel"e*gram (?), n. [Gr. -gram.] A message sent by telegraph; a
telegraphic dispatch.
telegram, instead of
telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic
communication.\'b8
Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).
Tel`e*gram*mic (?), a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise;
brief. [R.]
Tel"e*graph (?), n. [Gr. toli) + -graph: cf.
F. t\'82l\'82graphe. See Graphic.]
An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence
rapidly between distant points, especially by means of
preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or
ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical
action.
indicator, type-printing,
symbol-printing, or chemical-printing
telegraphs, according as the intelligence is given by the
movements of a pointer or indicator, as in Cooke & Wheatstone's
(the form commonly used in England), or by impressing, on a
fillet of paper, letters from types, as in House's and Hughe's,
or dots and marks from a sharp point moved by a magnet, as in
Morse's, or symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in
Bain's. In the offices in the United States the recording
instrument is now little used, the receiving operator reading by
ear the combinations of long and short intervals of sound
produced by the armature of an electro-magnet as it is put in
motion by the opening and breaking of the circuit, which motion,
in registering instruments, traces upon a ribbon of paper the
lines and dots used to represent the letters of the alphabet. See
Illustration in Appendix.
Acoustic telegraph. See under
Acoustic. -- Dial telegraph, a
telegraph in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other
symbols are placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at
each station, the apparatus being so arranged that the needle or
index of the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the
movements of that at the sending station. --
Electric telegraph, Electro-magnetic
telegraph, a telegraph in which an operator at
one station causes words or signs to be made at another by means
of a current of electricity, generated by a battery and
transmitted over an intervening wire. -- Facsimile
telegraph. See under Facsimile. --
Indicator telegraph. See under
Indicator. -- Pan-telegraph, an
electric telegraph by means of which a drawing or writing, as an
autographic message, may be exactly reproduced at a distant
station. -- Printing telegraph, an electric
telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is
received at a distant station, in letters, not signs. --
Signal telegraph, a telegraph in which
preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one
station, are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a
semaphore. -- Submarine telegraph cable, a
telegraph cable laid under water to connect stations separated by
a body of water. -- Telegraph cable, a
telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting wires,
inclosed by an insulating and protecting material, so as to bring
the wires into compact compass for use on poles, or to form a
strong cable impervious to water, to be laid under ground, as in
a town or city, or under water, as in the ocean. --
Telegraph plant (Bot.), a leguminous
plant (Desmodium gyrans) native of the East Indies.
The leaflets move up and down like the signals of a
semaphore.
Tel"e*graph (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Telegraphed
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Telegraphing
(?).] [F.
t\'82l\'82graphier.] To convey or announce
by telegraph.
Te*leg"ra*pher (?), n. One who
sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a
telegraphist.
Tel`e*graph"ic (?), a. [Cf. F.
t\'82l\'82graphique.] Of or pertaining to
the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as,
telegraphic signals; telegraphic art;
telegraphic intelligence.
Tel`e*graph"ic*al (?), a.
Telegraphic. --
Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Te*leg"ra*phist (?), n. One
skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
Te*leg"ra*phy (?), n. [Cf. F.
t\'82l\'82graphie.] The science or art of
constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs;
as, submarine telegraphy.
Te*lem"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. -meter.] An instrument used for
measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a
telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter
of an object whose real dimensions are known.
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from its sensors by radio to a base station. Such instruments
are used for measuring conditions in space or in other locations
difficult of access for humans observers, or merely to allow one
observer to monitor conditions in many places simultaneaously.
Telemetry. The science or process of making remote
measurements and sending the data by radio. -->
\'d8Te`le*o*ceph"i*al (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) An extensive order of bony fishes
including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon,
cod, perch, etc.
Te`le*o*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf.
F. t\'82l\'82ologique.] (Biol.)
Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of
design. -- Te`le*o*log"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Te`le*ol"o*gist (?), n.
(Biol.) One versed in teleology.
Te`le*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. teleos, the end or issue + -logy: cf. F.
t\'82l\'82ologie.] The doctrine of the
final causes of things; specif. (Biol.),
the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of
organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable
only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a
mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological
science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
Te"le*o*phore` (?), n. [Gr.
teleos complete +
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Gonotheca.
Te`le*or*gan"ic (?), a. [Gr.
teleos complete + E. organic.]
(Physiol.) Vital; as, teleorganic
functions.
Te`le*o*saur" (?), n.
(Paleon.) Any one of several species of fossil
suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These
reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave
vertebr\'91.
\'d8Te`le*o*sau"rus (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Paleon.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles
of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
Te"le*ost (?), n. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) One of the
Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
Te`le*os"te*an (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.)Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
-- n. A teleostean fish.
\'d8Te`le*os"te*i (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A subclass of fishes including all the
ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
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\'d8Te"le*os`to*mi (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) An extensive division of fishes
including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.
Te`le*o*zo"ic (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Having tissued composed of
cells.
Te*le*o*zo"\'94n (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A metazoan.
Te*lep"a*thy (?), n. [Gr. The sympathetic
affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of
another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary
channels of sensation. --
Tel`e*path"ic, a. --
Te*lep"a*thist, n.
Tel"e*pheme (?), n. [Gr. A message by a telephone.
[Recent]
Tel"e*phone (?), n. [Gr. (Physics) An
instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech,
at a distance.
magnetic
telephone, or magneto-telephone, the diaphragm
is of soft iron placed close to the pole of a magnet upon which
is wound a coil of fine wire, and its vibrations produce
corresponding vibrable currents in the wire by induction. The
mechanical, or string, telephone
is a device in which the voice or sound causes vibrations in a
thin diaphragm, which are directly transmitted along a wire or
string connecting it to a similar diaphragm at the remote
station, thus reproducing the sound. It does not employ
electricity.
Tel"e*phone, v. t. To convey or announce
by telephone.
Tel`e*phon"ic (?), a. [Cf. F.
t\'82l\'82phonique. See Telephone.]
1. Conveying sound to a great distance.
2. Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the
telephone.
Tel`e*phon"ic*al*ly (?), adv.
By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the
telephone.
Te*leph"o*ny (?), n. The art or
process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the
telephone.
Tel`e*po*lar"i*scope (?), n.
[Gr. polariscope.]
(Opt.) A polariscope arranged to be attached to a
telescope.
Lockyer.
Tel`e*ryth"in (?), n. [Gr. erythrin.] (Chem.) A
red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin.
So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin
compounds.
Tel"e*scope (?), n. [Gr. t\'82lescope. See
Telegraph, and -scope.] An optical
instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly
bodies.
object glass, or concave
mirror, which collects the beam of light, and forms an
image of the object, and the eyeglass, which is a
microscope, by which the image is magnified.
Achromatic telescope. See under
Achromatic. -- Aplanatic telescope,
a telescope having an aplanatic eyepiece. --
Astronomical telescope, a telescope which has a
simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the
image formed by the object glass, and consequently exhibits
objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical
observations. -- Cassegrainian telescope, a
reflecting telescope invented by Cassegrain, which
differs from the Gregorian only in having the secondary speculum
convex instead of concave, and placed nearer the large speculum.
The Cassegrainian represents objects inverted; the Gregorian, in
their natural position. The Melbourne telescope (see
Illust. under Reflecting telescope, below)
is a Cassegrainian telescope. -- Dialytic
telescope. See under Dialytic.
Equatorial telescope. See the Note under
Equatorial. -- Galilean telescope, a
refracting telescope in which the eyeglass is a concave instead
of a convex lens, as in the common opera glass. This was the
construction originally adopted by Galileo, the
inventor of the instrument. It exhibits the objects erect, that
is, in their natural positions. -- Gregorian
telescope, a form of reflecting telescope. See under
Gregorian. -- Herschelian telescope,
a reflecting telescope of the form invented by Sir William
Herschel, in which only one speculum is employed, by
means of which an image of the object is formed near one side of
the open end of the tube, and to this the eyeglass is applied
directly. -- Newtonian telescope, a form of
reflecting telescope. See under Newtonian. --
Photographic telescope, a telescope specially
constructed to make photographs of the heavenly bodies. --
Prism telescope. See Teinoscope. --
Reflecting telescope, a telescope in which the
image is formed by a speculum or mirror (or usually by two
speculums, a large one at the lower end of the telescope, and the
smaller one near the open end) instead of an object glass. See
Gregorian, Cassegrainian, Herschelian, , above. -- Refracting
telescope, a telescope in which the image is formed by
refraction through an object glass. -- Telescope
carp (Zo\'94l.), the telescope fish. --
Telescope fish (Zo\'94l.), a monstrous
variety of the goldfish having very protuberant eyes. --
Telescope fly (Zo\'94l.), any
two-winged fly of the genus Diopsis, native of Africa
and Asia. The telescope flies are remarkable for having the eyes
raised on very long stalks. -- Telescope shell
(Zo\'94l.), an elongated gastropod (Cerithium
telescopium) having numerous flattened whorls. --
Telescope sight (Firearms), a slender
telescope attached to the barrel, having cross wires in the
eyepiece and used as a sight. -- Terrestrial
telescope, a telescope whose eyepiece has one or two
lenses more than the astronomical, for the purpose of inverting
the image, and exhibiting objects erect.
Tel"e*scope (?), a.
[imp. & p. p. Telescoped
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Telescoping
(?).] To slide or pass one within
another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or
spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a
manner that one runs into another. [Recent]
Tel"e*scope, v. t. To cause to come into
collision, so as to telescope. [Recent]
{ Tel`e*scop"ic (?),
Tel`e*scop"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. t\'82lescopique.] 1.
Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a
telescope.
2. Seen or discoverable only by a telescope;
as, telescopic stars.
3. Able to discern objects at a distance;
farseeing; far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye;
telescopic vision.
4. Having the power of extension by joints sliding
one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a
spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of
concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the
telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the
telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put
out of sight by being lowered endwise.
Tel`e*scop"ic*al*ly, adv. In a
telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.
Te*les"co*pist (?), n. One who
uses a telescope.
R. A. Proctor.
Te*les"co*py (?), n. The art or
practice of using or making telescopes.
Tel"esm (?), n. [Ar.
tilism. See Talisman.] A kind of
amulet or magical charm. [Obs.]
J. Gregory.
{ Tel`es*mat"ic (?),
Tel`es*mat"ic*al (?), } a.
Of or pertaining to telesms; magical.
J. Gregory.
Tel`e*spec"tro*scope (?), n.
[Gr. spectroscope.]
(Astron.) A spectroscope arranged to be attached
to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or
stars.
Lockyer.
Tel`e*ste"re*o*scope (?), n.
[Gr. stereoscope.]
(Opt.) A stereoscope adapted to view distant
natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.
Te*les"tic (?), a. [Gr. Tending or
relating to a purpose or an end. [R.]
Cudworth.
Te*les"tich (?), n. [Gr. A poem in which the
final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf.
Acrostic.
Tel`e*ther*mom"e*ter (?), n.
[Gr. thermometer.]
(Physics) An apparatus for determining the
temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or
otherwise.
Te*leu"to*spore (?), n. [Gr.
spore.] (Bot.)
The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order
Uredinales), produced in late summer. See
Illust. of Uredospore.
Tel"ic (?), a. [Gr. (Gram.) Denoting the final
end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See
Ecbatic.
Gibbs.
Tell (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Told (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Telling.]
[AS. tellan, from talu tale, number,
speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G.
z\'84hlen, OHG. zellen to count, tell, say,
Icel. telja, Dan. tale to speak,
t\'91lle to count. See Tale that which is
told.] 1. To mention one by one, or piece by
piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count;
as, to tell money. \'bdAn heap of coin he
told.\'b8
Spenser.
He telleth the number of the stars.
Ps. cxlvii. 4.
Tell the joints of the body.
Jer. Taylor.
2. To utter or recite in detail; to give an account
of; to narrate.
Of which I shall tell all the array.
Chaucer.
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
Pope.
3. To make known; to publish; to disclose; to
divulge.
Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy
wife?
Gen. xii. 18.
4. To give instruction to; to make report to; to
acquaint; to teach; to inform.
A secret pilgrimage,
That you to-day promised to tell me of?
Shak.
5. To order; to request; to command.
He told her not to be frightened.
Dickens.
6. To discern so as to report; to ascertain by
observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not
tell where one color ends and the other
begins.
7. To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to
value; to estimate. [Obs.]
I ne told no dainity of her love.
Chaucer.
Tell, though equivalent in some respect
to speak and say, has not always the same
application. We say, to tell truth or falsehood, to
tell a number, to tell the reasons, to
tell something or nothing; but we never say, to
tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to
tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in
commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell
me all you know.
To tell off, to count; to divide. Sir
W. Scott.
Syn. -- To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform;
acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
Tell, v. i. 1. To give an
account; to make report.
That I may publish with the voice of thankgiving, and
tell of all thy wondrous works.
Ps. xxvi. 7.
2. To take effect; to produce a marked effect;
as, every shot tells; every expression
tells.
To tell of. (a) To speak of; to
mention; to narrate or describe. (b) To inform
against; to disclose some fault of. -- To tell
on, to inform against. [Archaic &
Colloq.]
Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did
David.
1 Sam. xxvii. 11.
Tell, n. That which is told; tale;
account. [R.]
I am at the end of my tell.
Walpole.
Tell, n. [Ar.] A hill or
mound.
W. M. Thomson.
Tell"a*ble (?), a. Capable of
being told.
Tel"len (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any species of Tellina.
Tell"er (?), n. 1. One
who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or
describer.
2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer,
formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay
moneys payable by the king.
Cowell.
3. An officer of a bank who receives and counts
over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.
4. One who is appointed to count the votes given in
a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
Tell"er*ship, n. The office or
employment of a teller.
\'d8Tel*li"na (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A
genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often
handsomely colored shells.
Tell"ing (?), a. Operating with
great effect; effective; as, a telling
speech. -- Tell"ing*ly,
adv.
Tell"tale` (?), a. Telling
tales; babbling. \'bdThe telltale heart.\'b8
Poe.
Tell"tale`, n. 1. One who
officiously communicates information of the private concerns of
others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
2. (Mus.) A movable piece of ivory,
lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ,
that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is
exhausted.
3. (Naut.) (a) A mechanical
attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a
tiller, shows the position of the helm. (b) A
compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the
captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the
vessel's course.
4. (Mach.) A machine or contrivance for
indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a
check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check
takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they
have done or omitted.
5. (Zo\'94l.) The tattler. See
Tattler.
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Tel*lu"ral (?), a. [L.
tellus, -uris, the earth.] Of or
pertaining to the earth. [R.]
Tel"lu*rate (?), n. [Cf. F.
tellurate. See Tellurium.]
(Chem.) A salt of telluric acid.
Tel"lu*ret (?), n.
(Chem.) A telluride.
[Obsoles.]
Tel"lu*ret`ed (?), n.
(Chem.) Combined or impregnated with tellurium;
tellurized. [Written also
telluretted.] [Obsoles.]
Tellureted hydrogen (Chem.),
hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous
substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide; -- called also
tellurhydric acid.
Tel`lur*hy"dric (?), a.
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating,
hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when
in solution.
Tel*lu"ri*an (?), a. [L.
tellus, -uris, the earth.] Of or
pertaining to the earth.
De Quincey.
Tel*lu"ri*an, n. 1. A dweller
on the earth.
De Quincey.
2. An instrument for showing the operation of the
causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the
changes of the seasons. [Written also
tellurion.]
Tel*lu"ric (?), a. [L.
tellus, -uris, the earth: cf. F.
tellurique.] 1. Of or pertaining
to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
Amid these hot, telluric flames.
Carlyle.
2. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to
tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically,
designating those compounds in which the element has a higher
valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds;
as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric
acid.
Telluric bismuth (Min.),
tetradymite. -- Telluric silver
(Min.), hessite.
Tel"lu*ride (?), n.
(Chem.) A compound of tellurium with a more
positive element or radical; -- formerly called
telluret.
Tel"lu*rism (?), n. An
hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in
Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a
telluric spirit or influence. [R.]
S. Thompson.
Tel"lu*rite (?), n. 1.
(Chem.) A salt of tellurous acid.
2. (Min.) Oxide of tellurium. It occurs
sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals.
Tel*lu"ri*um (?), n. [NL., from
L. tellus, -uris, the earth.]
(Chem.) A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to
sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of
a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals,
as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in
Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2.
Graphic tellurium. (Min.) See
Sylvanite. -- Tellurium glance
(Min.), nagyagite; -- called also black
tellurium.
Tel"lu*rize (?), v. t.
(Chem.) To impregnate with, or to subject to the
action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past
participle; as, tellurized ores.
Tel"lu*rous (?), a.
(Chem.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived
from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those
compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted
with telluric compounds; as, tellurous
acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid.
Tel`o*dy*nam"ic (?), a. [Gr.
dynamic.] Relating to a system
for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving
ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
Tel`oo*goo" (?), n. See
Telugu.
D. O. Allen.
\'d8Te*lot"ro*cha (?), n.; pl.
Telotroch\'91 (#). [NL. See
Telotrochal.] (Zo\'94l.) An
annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.
{ Te*lot"ro*chal (?),
Te*lot"ro*chous (?), } a.
[Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Having both a preoral and a posterior
band of cilla; -- applied to the larv\'91 of certain
annelids.
Tel"o*type (?), n. [Gr. -type.] An electric telegraph which
prints the messages in letters and not in signs.
Tel"pher (?), n. [Gr. (Elec.) A
contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of
electricity.
Fleeming Jenkin.
Telpher line, Telpher
road, an electric line or road over which
vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines
actuated by a current conveyed by the line.
Tel"pher*age (?), n. The
conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
Fleeming Jenkin.
Tel"son (?), n.; pl.
Telsons (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) The terminal
joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and
other articulates. See Thoracostraca.
Tel`u*gu" (?), n. 1. A
Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras
presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after
Hindustani (in its various forms) and Bengali.
[Spelt also Teloogoo.]
2. One of the people speaking the Telugu
language.
Tel`u*gu", a. Of or pertaining to the
Telugu language, or the Telugus.
Tem`er*a"ri*ous (?), a. [L.
temerarius. See Temerity.]
Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash;
headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. --
Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly,
adv.
I spake against temerarious judgment.
Latimer.
Tem`er*a"tion (?), n. [L.
temerare to defile.] Temerity.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.
Te*mer"i*ty (?), n. [L.
temeritas, from temere by chance, rashly;
perhaps akin to Skr. tamas darkness: cf. F.
t\'82m\'82rit\'82.] Unreasonable contempt
of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the
temerity of a commander in war.
Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness;
venturesomeness. -- Temerity,
Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but
have a slight difference in their use and application.
Temerity is Latin, and rashness is
Anglo-Saxon. As in many such cases, the Latin term is more select
and dignified; the Anglo-Saxon more familiar and energetic. We
show temerity in hasty decisions, and the conduct to
which they lead. We show rashness in particular
actions, as dictated by sudden impulse. It is an exhibition of
temerity to approach the verge of a precipice; it is
an act of rashness to jump into a river without being
able to swim. Temerity, then, is an unreasonable
contempt of danger; rashness is a rushing into danger
from thoughtlessness or excited feeling.
It is notorious temerity to pass sentence upon
grounds uncapable of evidence.
Barrow.
Her rush hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat.
Milton.
Tem"er*ous (?), a.
Temerarious. [Obs.]
Tem*pe"an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek
poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple;
hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.
Tem"per (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tempered
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tempering.] [AS. temprian or
OF. temper, F. temp\'82rer, and (in sense
3) temper, L. temperare, akin to
tempus time. Cf. Temporal,
Distemper, Tamper.] 1. To
mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as
by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient;
hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to
calm.
Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch
indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder
system.
Bancroft.
Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Otway.
But thy fire
Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher.
Byron.
She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about
her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful
shades and colors.
Addison.
2. To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
Thy sustenance . . . serving to the appetite of the eater,
tempered itself to every man's liking.
Wisdom xvi. 21.
3. (Metal.) To bring to a proper degree
of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver
sound.
Dryden.
4. To govern; to manage. [A Latinism &
Obs.]
With which the damned ghosts he governeth,
And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth.
Spenser.
5. To moisten to a proper consistency and stir
thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding,
etc.
6. (Mus.) To adjust, as the mathematical
scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
Syn. -- To soften; mollify; assuage; soothe; calm.
Tem"per, n. 1. The state of any
compound substance which results from the mixture of various
ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just
combination; as, the temper of mortar.
2. Constitution of body; temperament; in old
writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors,
blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper
increased the exquisiteness of his torment.
Fuller.
3. Disposition of mind; the constitution of the
mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections;
as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a
fretful temper.
Remember with what mild
And gracious temper he both heared and judged.
Milton.
The consequents of a certain ethical temper.
J. H. Newman.
4. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity;
composure; as, to keep one's temper.
To fall with dignity, with temper rise.
Pope.
Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers.
B. Jonson.
5. Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness
to anger; -- in a reproachful sense. [Colloq.]
6. The state of a metal or other substance,
especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of
heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or
steel.
7. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
[R.]
The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the
mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles,
and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular
circumstances.
Macaulay.
8. (Sugar Works) Milk of lime, or other
substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify
sugar.
Temper screw, in deep well boring, an
adjusting screw connecting the working beam with the rope
carrying the tools, for lowering the tools as the drilling
progresses.
Syn. -- Disposition; temperament; frame; humor; mood. See
Disposition.
Tem"per, v. i. 1. To accord; to
agree; to act and think in conformity. [Obs.]
Shak.
2. To have or get a proper or desired state or
quality; to grow soft and pliable.
I have him already tempering between my finger and
my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him.
Shak.
\'d8Tem"pe*ra (?), n.
[It.] (Paint.) A mode or process of
painting; distemper.
Tem"per*a*ble (?), a. Capable
of being tempered.
The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of
metals.
Emerson.
Tem"per*a*ment (?), n. [L.
temperamentum a mixing in due proportion, proper
measure, temperament: cf. F. temp\'82rament. See
Temper, v. t.] 1.
Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative
proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state
and temperament.
Sir M. Hale.
2. Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought
about by mutual compromises or concessions.
[Obs.]
However, I forejudge not any probable expedient, any
temperament that can be found in things of this
nature, so disputable on their side.
Milton.
3. The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment,
as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the
means by which such adjustment is effected.
Wholesome temperaments of the rashness of popular
assemblies.
Sir J. Mackintosh.
4. Condition with regard to heat or cold;
temperature. [Obs.]
Bodies are denominated \'bdhot\'b8 and \'bdcold\'b8 in
proportion to the present temperament of that part of
our body to which they are applied.
Locke.
5. (Mus.) A system of compromises in the
tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones
generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually
modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the
actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This
scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive
of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not
mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the
convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key
or scale, C<-- = tempering -->
6. (Physiol.) The peculiar physical and
mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously
supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and
proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of
the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases,
bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine
temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of
these fluids and a corresponding influence on the
temperament.
Equal temperament (Mus.), that in
which the variations from mathematically true pitch are
distributed among all the keys alike. -- Unequal
temperament (Mus.), that in which the
variations are thrown into the keys least used.
Tem`per*a*men"tal (?), a. Of or
pertaining to temperament; constitutional.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.
Tem"per*ance (?), n. [L.
temperantia: cf. F. temp\'82rance. See
Temper, v. t.] 1.
Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the
natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate
indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and
drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or
mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence,
in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
2. Moderation of passion; patience; calmness;
sedateness. [R.] \'bdA gentleman of all
temperance.\'b8
Shak.
He calmed his wrath with goodly temperance.
Spenser.
3. State with regard to heat or cold;
temperature. [Obs.] \'bdTender and delicate
temperance.\'b8
Shak.
Temperance society, an association formed for
the purpose of diminishing or stopping the use of alcoholic
liquors as a beverage.
Tem"per*an*cy (?), n.
Temperance.
Tem"per*ate (?), a. [L.
temperatus, p.p. of temperare. See
Temper, v. t.] 1.
Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a
temperate climate.
2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool;
calm; as, temperate language.
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
Shak.
That sober freedom out of which there springs
Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
Tennyson.
3. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural
appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and
drinking.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be
healthy.
Franklin.
4. Proceeding from temperance.
[R.]
The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
Pope.
Temperate zone (Geog.), that part
of the earth which lies between either tropic and the
corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less
than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid
zones.
Syn. -- Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.
Tem"per*ate (?), v. t. To
render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
[Obs.]
It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath.
Marston.
Tem"per*ate*ly (?), adv. In a
temperate manner.
Tem"per*ate*ness, n. The quality or
state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
Tem"per*a*tive (?), a. [Cf. L.
temperativus soothing.] Having power to
temper. [R.]
T. Granger.
Tem"per*a*ture (?), n. [F.
temp\'82rature, L. temperatura due measure,
proportion, temper, temperament.] 1.
Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
The best composition and temperature is, to have
openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in
seasonable use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Bacon.
Memory depends upon the consistence and the
temperature of the brain.
I. Watts.
2. Freedom from passion; moderation.
[Obs.]
In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,
Most goodly temperature you may descry.
Spenser.
3. (Physics) Condition with respect to
heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced,
or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold;
as, the temperature of the air; high
temperature; low temperature;
temperature of freezing or of boiling.
4. Mixture; compound. [Obs.]
Made a temperature of brass and iron together.
Holland.
Absolute temperature. (Physics) See
under Absolute. -- Animal temperature
(Physiol.), the nearly constant temperature
maintained in the bodies of warm-blooded
(homoiothermal) animals during life. The ultimate
source of the heat is to be found in the potential energy of the
food and the oxygen which is absorbed from the air during
respiration. See Homoiothermal. -- Temperature
sense (Physiol.), the faculty of perceiving
cold and warmth, and so of perceiving differences of temperature
in external objects. H. N. Martin.
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Tem"pered (?), a. Brought to a
proper temper; as, tempered steel; having
(such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a
good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a
well-tempered sword.
Tem"per*er (?), n. One who, or
that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime,
cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
Tem"per*ing, n. (Metal.) The
process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to
a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving
to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes,
consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to
redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of
hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is
reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the
color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of
oil.
Tempering color, the shade of color that
indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale straw
yellow for lancets, razors, and tools for metal; dark straw
yellow for penknives, screw taps, etc.; brown yellow for axes,
chisels, and plane irons; yellow tinged with purple for table
knives and shears; purple for swords and watch springs; blue for
springs and saws; and very pale blue tinged with green, too soft
for steel instruments.
Tem"pest (?), n. [OF.
tempeste, F. temp\'88te, (assumed) LL.
tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of
time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time.
See Temporal of time.] 1. An
extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and
violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a
furious storm.
[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
Each on his rock transfixed.
Milton.
2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a
political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the
passions.
3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note
under Drum, n., 4.
[Archaic]
Smollett.
Tempest is sometimes used in the
formation of self-explaining compounds; as,
tempest-beaten, tempest-loving,
tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the
like.
Syn. -- Storm; agitation; perturbation. See
Storm.
Tem"pest, v. t. [Cf. OF.
tempester, F. temp\'88ter to rage.]
To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]
Part huge of bulk
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean.
Milton.
Tem"pest, v. i. To storm.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Tem*pes"tive (?), a. [L.
tempestivus.] Seasonable; timely; as,
tempestive showers. [Obs.]
Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly,
adv. [Obs.]
Tem`pes*tiv"i*ly (?), n. [L.
tempestivitas.] The quality, or state, of
being tempestive; seasonableness. [Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Tem*pes"tu*ous (?), a. [L.
tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F.
temp\'88tueux.] Of or pertaining to a
tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent;
stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a
tempestuous night; a tempestuous
debate. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly,
adv. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness,
n.
They saw the Hebrew leader,
Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard.
Longfellow.
Tem"plar (?), n. [OE.
templere, F. templier, LL.
templarius. See Temple a church.]
1. One of a religious and military order first
established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century,
for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These
Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple,
were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of
Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
2. A student of law, so called from having
apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having
belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple,
and Middle Temple, under Temple.
[Eng.]
3. One belonged to a certain order or degree among
the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of
an order among temperance men, styled Good
Templars.
Tem"plar, a. Of or pertaining to a
temple. [R.]
Solitary, family, and templar devotion.
Coleridge.
Tem"plate (?), n. Same as
Templet.
Tem"ple (?), n. [Cf.
Templet.] (Weaving) A contrivence
used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
Tem"ple, n. [OF. temple, F.
tempe, from L. tempora, tempus;
perhaps originally, the right place, the fatal spot, supposed to
be the same word as tempus, temporis, the
fitting or appointed time. See Temporal of time, and cf.
Tempo, Tense, n.] 1.
(Anat.) The space, on either side of the head,
back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in
front of the ear.
2. One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles,
jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head
to hold the spectacles in place.
Tem"ple, n. [AS. tempel, from
L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf.
Gr. t\'82mple, from the Latin. Cf.
Contemplate.] 1. A place or edifice
dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the
temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in
India. \'bdThe temple of mighty Mars.\'b8
Chaucer.
2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected
at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
John x. 23.
3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a
place of public worship; a church.
Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of
God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to
devotion and sanctified by prayer?
Buckminster.
4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence
specially resides. \'bdThe temple of his
body.\'b8
John ii. 21.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that
the spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Cor. iii. 16.
The groves were God's first temples.
Bryant.
Inner Temple, Middle
Temple, two buildings, or ranges of buildings,
occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a
monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the
Temple.
Tem"ple (?), v. t. To build a
temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to
temple a god. [R.]
Feltham.
Tem"pled (?), a. Supplied with
a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a
temple.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills.
S. F. Smith.
Tem"plet (?), n. [LL.
templatus vaulted, from L. templum a small
timber.] [Spelt also template.]
1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate
or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed;
as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.
2. (Arch.) A short piece of timber,
iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to
distribute the weight or pressure.
\'d8Tem"po (?), n. [It., fr. L.
tempus. See Tense, n.]
(Mus.) The rate or degree of movement in
time.
\'d8A tempo giusto (j
[It.], in exact time; -- sometimes, directing a
return to strict time after a tempo rubato. -- Tempo
rubato. See under Rubato.
Tem"po*ral (?), a. [L.
temporalis, fr. tempora the temples: cf. F.
temporal. See Temple a part of the
head.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the
temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a
temporal artery.
Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in
the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of
hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal portion
above the ear, corresponding to the squamosal and zygoma of the
lower vertebrates, and a thickened basal petrosal and
mastoid portion, corresponding to the periotic and
tympanic bones of the lower vertebrates.
Tem"po*ral (?), a. [L.
temporalis, fr. tempus,
temporis, time, portion of time, the fitting or
appointed time: cf. F. temporel. Cf.
Contemporaneous, Extempore, Temper,
v. t., Tempest, Temple a part of the
head, Tense, n., Thing.]
1. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the
present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from
sacred or eternal.
The things which are seen are temporal, but the
things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Cor. iv. 18.
Is this an hour for temporal affairs?
Shak.
2. Civil or political, as distinguished from
ecclesiastical; as, temporal power;
temporal courts.
Lords temporal. See under Lord,
n. -- Temporal augment. See the
Note under Augment, n.
Syn. -- Transient; fleeting; transitory.
Tem"po*ral, n. Anything temporal or
secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Dryden.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the
emperor or temporals.
Lowell.
Tem`po*ral"i*ty (?), n.; pl.
Temporalities (#). [L.
temporalitas, in LL., possessions of the church: cf.
F. temporalit\'82.] 1. The state
or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to
perpetuity.
2. The laity; temporality.
[Obs.]
Sir T. More.
3. That which pertains to temporal welfare;
material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic
proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the
like; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality and
temporality of the same church.
Fuller.
Tem"po*ral*ly (?), adv. In a
temporal manner; secularly. [R.]
South.
Tem"po*ral*ness, n. Worldliness.
[R.]
Cotgrave.
Tem"po*ral*ty (?), n. [See
Temporality.] 1. The laity; secular
people. [Obs.]
Abp. Abbot.
2. A secular possession; a temporality.
Tem`po*ra"ne*ous (?), a. [L.
temporaneus happening at the right time, fr.
tempus, temporis, time.]
Temporarity. [Obs.]
Hallywell.
Tem"po*ra*ri*ly (?), adv. In a
temporary manner; for a time.
Tem"po*ra*ri*ness, n. The quality or
state of being temporary; -- opposed to
perpetuity.
Tem"po*ra*ry (?), a. [L.
temporarius, fr. tempus,
temporis, time: cf. F. temporaire.]
Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a
limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained
temporary relief.
Temporary government of the city.
Motley.
Temporary star. (Astron.) See under
Star.
Tem"po*rist (?), n. A
temporizer. [Obs.]
Why, turn a temporist, row with the tide.
Marston.
Tem`po*ri*za"tion (?), n. [Cf.
F. temporisation.] The act of
temporizing.
Johnson.
Tem"po*rize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Temporized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Temporizing
(?).] [F. temporiser. See
Temporal of time.] 1. To comply with
the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of
opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two
parties.
They might their grievance inwardly complain,
But outwardly they needs must temporize.
Daniel.
2. To delay; to procrastinate.
[R.]
Bacon.
3. To comply; to agree. [Obs.]
Shak.
Tem"po*ri`zer (?), n. One who
temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the
prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer.
A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and
maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of
preferment.
Burton.
Tem"po*ri`zing*ly (?), adv. In
a temporizing or yielding manner.
Tem"po*ro- (?). A combining form used in
anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation
to, the temple, or temporal bone;
as, temporofacial.
Tem`po*ro-au*ric"u*lar (?), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and
the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.
Tem`po*ro*fa"cial (?), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and
the face.
Tem`po*ro*ma"lar (?), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and
the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar
nerve.
Tem`po*ro*max"il*la*ry (?), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple or
the temporal bone and the maxilla.
Temps (?), n. [OF. & F., fr. L.
tempus. See Temporal of time.]
Time. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Tempse (?), n. See
Temse. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Tempt (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tempted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Tempting.] [OE.
tempten, tenten, from OF.
tempter, tenter, F. tenter, fr.
L. tentare, temptare, to handle, feel,
attack, to try, put to the test, urge, freq. from
tendere, tentum, and tensum, to
stretch. See Thin, and cf. Attempt,
Tend, Taunt, Tent a pavilion,
Tent to probe.] 1. To put to trial;
to prove; to test; to try.
God did tempt Abraham.
Gen. xxii. 1.
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God.
Deut. vi. 16.
2. To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to
entice to what is wrong; to seduce.
Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his
own lust, and enticed.
James i. 14.
3. To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite;
to incite; to provoke; to instigate.
Tempt not the brave and needy to despair.
Dryden.
Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire.
Pope.
4. To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to
attempt.
Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies.
Dryden.
Syn. -- To entice; allure; attract; decoy; seduce.
Tempt`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The
quality or state of being temptable; lability to
temptation.
Tempt"a*ble (?), a. Capable of
being tempted; liable to be tempted.
Cudworth.
Temp*ta"tion (?), n. [OF.
temptation, tentation, F.
tentation, L. tentatio.] 1.
The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
When the devil had ended all the temptation, he
departed from him for a season.
Luke iv. 13.
2. The state of being tempted, or enticed to
evil.
Lead us not into temptation.
Luke xi. 4.
3. That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement,
especially to something evil.
Dare to be great, without a guilty crown;
View it, and lay the bright temptation down.
Dryden.
Temp*ta"tion*less, a. Having no
temptation or motive; as, a temptationless
sin. [R.]
Hammond.
Temp*ta"tious (?), a.
Tempting. [Prov. Eng.]
Tempt"er (?), n. One who tempts
or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the
great enticer to evil. \'bdThose who are bent to do
wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on.\'b8
Tillotson.
So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned.
Milton.
Tempt"ing, a. Adapted to entice or
allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as,
tempting pleasures. --
Tempt"ing*ly, adv. --
Tempt"ing*ness, n.
Tempt"ress (?), n. A woman who
entices.
She was my temptress, the foul provoker.
Sir W. Scott.
Temse (?), n. [F.
tamis, or D. tems, teems. Cf.
Tamine.] A sieve. [Written also
tems, and tempse.] [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
Temse bread, Temsed bread,
Temse loaf, bread made of flour better
sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.]
{ Tem"u*lence (?), Tem"u*len*cy
(?), } n. [L.
temulentia.] Intoxication; inebriation;
drunkenness. [R.] \'bdTheir
temulency.\'b8
Jer. Taylor.
Tem"u*lent (?), a. [L.
temulentus.] Intoxicated; drunken.
[R.]
Tem"u*lent*ive (?), a. Somewhat
temulent; addicted to drink. [R.]
R. Junius.
Ten (?), a. [AS.
t\'c7n, ti\'82n, t,
t\'c7ne; akin to OFries. tian, OS.
tehan, D. tien, G. zehn, OHG.
zehan, Icel. t\'c6u, Sw. tio,
Dan. ti, Goth. ta\'a1hun, Lith.
deszimt, Russ. desiate, W. deg,
Ir. & Gael. deich, L. decem, Gr. da\'87an. \'fb308. Cf. Dean, Decade,
Decimal, December, Eighteen,
Eighty, Teens, Tithe.] One
more than nine; twice five.
With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea.
Dryden.
Ten is often used, indefinitely, for
several, many, and other like words.
There 's proud modesty in merit,
Averse from begging, and resolved to pay
Ten times the gift it asks.
Dryden.
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Ten (?), n. 1. The
number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten
units of objects.
I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Gen. xviii. 32.
2. A symbol representing ten units, as 10,
x, or X.
Ten`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The
quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.
Ten"a*ble (?), a. [F.
tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L.
tenere. See Thin, and cf. Continue,
Continent, Entertain, Maintain,
Tenant, Tent.] Capable of being
held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or
objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a
tenable fortress, a tenable
argument.
If you have hitherto concealed his sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still.
Shak.
I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when
it was tenable.
Sir W. Scott.
Ten`a*ble*ness, n. Same as
Tenability.
Ten"ace (?), n. [F.
tenace tenacious, demeurer tenace to hold
the best and third best cards and take both tricks, and adversary
having to lead. See Tenacious.] (Whist)
The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best
cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best
with third best card of a suit in any hand.
Te*na"cious (?), a. [L.
tenax, -acis, from tenere to
hold. See Tenable, and cf. Tenace.]
1. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined
to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious
of their just rights.
2. Apt to retain; retentive; as, a
tenacious memory.
3. Having parts apt to adhere to each other;
cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar
is more tenacious than oil.
Sir I. Newton.
4. Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous;
viscous; sticking; adhesive. \'bdFemale feet, too weak to
struggle with tenacious clay.\'b8
Cowper.
5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
Ainsworth.
6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose;
obstinate; stubborn.
-- Te*na"cious*ly, adv. --
Te*na"cious*ness, n.
Te*nac"i*ty (?), n. [L.
tenacitas: cf. F. t\'82nacit\'82. See
Tenacious.] 1. The quality or state
of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness,
of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of
purpose.
2. That quality of bodies which keeps them from
parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of
attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness,
fragility, mobility, etc.
3. That quality of bodies which makes them adhere
to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
Holland.
4. (Physics) The greatest longitudinal
stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually
expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of
the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or
kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce
rupture.
\'d8Te*nac"u*lum (?), n.; pl.
L. Tenacula (#); E. Tenaculums
(#). [L., a holder, fr. tenere to
hold. Cf. Tenaille.] (Surg.) An
instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle,
and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.
Ten"a*cy (?), n. [L.
tenacia obstinacy. See Tenacious.]
Tenaciousness; obstinacy. [Obs.]
Barrow.
Te*naille" (?), n. [F., a pair
of pincers or tongs, a tenaille, fr. L. tenaculum. See
Tenaculum.] (Fort.) An outwork in
the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.
See Illust. of Ravelin.
Te*nail"lon (?), n. [F. See
Tenaille.] (Fort.) A work
constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their
strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover
the shoulders of the bastions.
Ten"an*cy (?), n.; pl.
Tenacies (#). [Cf. OF.
tenace, LL. tenentia. See
Tenant.] (Law) (a) A
holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary
possession of what belongs to another. (b)
(O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to
live in, held of another.
Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.
Ten"ant (?), n. [F.
tenant, p.pr. of tenir to hold. See
Tenable, and cf. Lieutenant.] 1.
(Law) One who holds or possesses lands, or other
real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in
common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one
who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or
tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to
landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under
Tenement, 2.
Blount. Wharton.
2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller;
an occupant. \'bdSweet tenants of this
grove.\'b8
Cowper.
The hhappy tenant of your shade.
Cowley.
The sister tenants of the middle deep.
Byron.
Tenant in capite [L. in in +
capite, abl. of caput head, chief.],
Tenant in chief, by the laws of
England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the
feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held
immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled lord
paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having
the fee of the lands and permanent possession.
Blackstone. -- Tenant in common. See
under Common.
Ten"ant, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tenanted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tenanting.] To hold, occupy, or possess
as a tenant.
Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have
served him or his ancestors.
Addison.
Ten"ant*a*ble (?), a. Fit to be
rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. --
Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
Ten"ant*less, a. Having no tenants;
unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion.
Shak.
Ten"ant*ry (?), n. 1.
The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a
manor or a kingdom.
2. Tenancy. [Obs.]
Ridley.
Ten"ant saw` (?). See Tenon
saw, under Tenon.
Tench (?), n. [OF.
tenche, F. tanche, L.
tinca.] (Zo\'94l.) A European
fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T.
vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity
of life.
Tend (?), v. t. [See
Tender to offer.] (O. Eng. Law) To
make a tender of; to offer or tender. [Obs.]
Tend, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tending.] [Aphetic form of
attend. See Attend, Tend to move,
and cf. Tender one that tends or attends.]
1. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to
care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as,
shepherds tend their flocks.
Shak.
And flaming ministers to watch and tend
Their earthly charge.
Milton.
There 's not a sparrow or a wren,
There 's not a blade of autumn grain,
Which the four seasons do not tend
And tides of life and increase lend.
Emerson.
2. To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend
to.
Being to descend
A ladder much in height, I did not tend
My way well down.
Chapman.
To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage
an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she
shall not entangle the cable.
Tend, v. i. 1. To wait, as
attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with
on or upon.
Was he not companion with the riotous knights
That tend upon my father?
Shak.
2. [F. attendre.] To await;
to expect. [Obs.]
Shak.
Tend, v. i. [F. tendre, L.
tendere, tensum and tentum, to
stretch, extend, direct one's course, tend; akin to Gr. tan. See Thin, and cf.
Tend to attend, Contend, Intense,
Ostensible, Portent, Tempt,
Tender to offer, Tense, a.]
1. To move in a certain direction; -- usually with
to or towards.
Two gentlemen tending towards that sight.
Sir H. Wotton.
Thus will this latter, as the former world,
Still tend from bad to worse.
Milton.
The clouds above me to the white Alps tend.
Byron.
2. To be directed, as to any end, object, or
purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or
influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our
petitions, if granted, might tend to our
destruction.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to
plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Prov. xxi. 5.
The laws of our religion tend to the universal
happiness of mankind.
Tillotson.
Tend"ance (?), n. [See
Tend to attend, and cf. Attendance.]
1. The act of attending or waiting;
attendance. [Archaic]
Spenser.
The breath
Of her sweet tendance hovering over him.
Tennyson.
2. Persons in attendance; attendants.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Tend"ence (?), n.
Tendency. [Obs.]
Tend"en*cy (?), n.; pl.
Tendencies (#). [L.
tendents, -entis, p.pr. of
tendere: cf. F. tendance. See Tend
to move.] Direction or course toward any place,
object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence
to bring about an effect or result.
Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more
particular tendency to the good of their country.
Addison.
In every experimental science, there is a tendency
toward perfection.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Disposition; inclination; proneness; drift; scope;
aim.
Tend"er (?), n. [From
Tend to attend. Cf. Attender.]
1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person
or thing; a nurse.
2. (Naut.) A vessel employed to attend
other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores,
to convey intelligence, or the like.
<-- submarine tender, a ship which provides supplies and logistic
support to submarines. A specialization of def. 2. -->
3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a
supply of fuel and water.
Ten"der (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tendered
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tendering.] [F. tendre to
stretch, stretch out, reach, L. tendere. See
Tend to move.] 1. (Law)
To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to
save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the
amount of rent or debt.
2. To offer in words; to present for
acceptance.
You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . .
tender down
Their services to Lord Timon.
Shak.
Ten"der, n. 1. (Law)
An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be
performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would
be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the
tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with
interest.
2. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance;
as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of
friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
A free, unlimited tender of the gospel.
South.
3. The thing offered; especially, money offered in
payment of an obligation.
Shak.
<-- 4. (Finance) An offer to buy a certain number of shares of
stock of a publicly-traded company at a fixed price, usu. in an
attempt to gain control of the company. -->
Legal tender. See under Legal.
-- Tender of issue (Law), a form of
words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the
question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision.
Burrill.
Ten"der, a. [Compar.
Tenderer (?); superl.
Tenderest.] [F. tendre, L.
tener; probably akin to tenuis thin. See
Thin.] 1. Easily impressed, broken,
bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as,
tender plants; tender flesh; tender
fruit.
2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily
pained.
Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our
faces.
L'Estrange.
3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure
hardship; immature; effeminate.
The tender and delicate woman among you.
Deut. xxviii. 56.
4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love,
compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for
another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor;
sympathetic.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
James v. 11.
I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my
temper.
Fuller.
5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
I love Valentine,
Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
Shak.
6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; --
with of. \'bdTender of property.\'b8
Burke.
The civil authority should be tender of the honor
of God and religion.
Tillotson.
7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,
Will never do him good.
Shak.
8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy;
expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as,
tender expressions; tender expostulations; a
tender strain.
9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain;
delicate; as, a tender subject.
\'bdThings that are tender and unpleasing.\'b8
Bacon.
10. (Naut.) Heeling over too easily when
under sail; -- said of a vessel.
Tender is sometimes used in the formation
of self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed,
tender-looking, tender-minded,
tender-mouthed, and the like.
Syn. -- Delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive;
compassionate; kind; humane; merciful; pitiful.
Ten"der (?), n. [Cf. F.
tendre.] Regard; care; kind concern.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Ten"der, v. t. To have a care of; to be
tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
[Obs.]
For first, next after life, he tendered her
good.
Spenser.
Tender yourself more dearly.
Shak.
To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity. Our
western princes tendered his case, which they counted
might be their own.
Fuller.
Ten"der*foot` (?), n. A
delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of
pioneer life. [Slang, Western U.S.]
Ten"der-heart`ed (?), a. Having
great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence;
affectionate; pitying; sensitive. --
Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. --
Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n.
Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could
not withstand them.
2 Chron. xiii. 7.
Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted.
Eph. iv. 32.
Ten"der-heft`ed (?), a. Having
great tenderness; easily moved. [Obs.]
Shak.
Ten"der*ling (?), n. 1.
One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.
[R.]
W. Harrison (1586).
2. (Zo\'94l.) One of the first antlers
of a deer.
Ten"der*loin` (?), n. A strip
of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the
short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of
the psoas muscles.
Ten"der*ly, adv. In a tender manner;
with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to
injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.
Chaucer.
Ten"der*ness, n. The quality or state of
being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence;
kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
Ten"di*nous (?), a. [Cf. F.
tendineux.] 1. Pertaining to a
tendon; of the nature of tendon.
2. Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and
tendinous parts of the body.
Tend"ment (?), n. Attendance;
care. [Obs.]
Ten"don (?), n. [F., fr. L.
tendere to stretch, extend. See Tend to
move.] (Anat.) A tough insensible cord,
bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle
with some other part; a sinew.
Tendon reflex (Physiol.), a kind of
reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon
its tendon. Its absence is generally a sign of disease. See
Knee jerk, under Knee.
Ten"don*ous (?), a.
Tendinous.
\'d8Ten`do*syn`o*vi"tis (?), n.
[NL. See Tendon, and Synovitis.]
See Tenosynovitis.
Ten"drac (?), n. [See
Tenrec.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of
several species of small insectivores of the family
Centetid\'91, belonging to Ericulus,
Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar.
They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in
habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very
injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also
tenrec.
Ten"dril (?), n. [Shortened fr.
OF. tendrillon, fr. F. tendre tender;
hence, properly, the tender branch or spring of a plant: cf. F.
tendrille. See Tender, a., and cf.
Tendron.] (Bot.) A slender,
leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a
supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by
coiling spirally.
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Ten"dril (?), a. Clasping;
climbing as a tendril. [R.]
Dyer.
{ Ten"driled, Ten"drilled }
(?), a. (Bot.) Furnished with
tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. \'bdThe
thousand tendriled vine.\'b8
Southey.
Ten"dron (?), n. [F. Cf.
Tendril.] A tendril.
[Obs.]
Holland.
Ten"dry (?), n. A tender; an
offer. [Obs.]
Heylin.
Tene (?), n. & v. See 1st and
2d Teen. [Obs.]
\'d8Ten"e*br\'91 (?), n. [L.,
pl., darkness.] (R. C. Ch.) The matins and
lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the
sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon
or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the
following days.
Te*neb"ri*cose` (?), a. [L.
tenebricosus.] Tenebrous; dark;
gloomy. [Obs.]
Ten`e*brif"ic (?), a. [L.
tenebrae darkness + facere to make.]
Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
It lightens, it brightens,
The tenebrific scene.
Burns.
Where light
Lay fitful in a tenebrific time.
R. Browning.
Ten`e*brif"ic*ous (?), a.
Tenebrific.
Authors who are tenebrificous stars.
Addison.
Te*ne"bri*ous (?), a.
Tenebrous.
Young.
Ten"e*brose` (?), a.
Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.
Ten`e*bros"i*ty (?), n. The
quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness.
Burton.
Ten"e*brous (?), a. [L.
tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F.
t\'82n\'82breux.] Dark; gloomy; dusky;
tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness,
n.
The most dark, tenebrous night.
J. Hall (1565).
The towering and tenebrous boughts of the
cypress.
Longfellow.
Ten"e*ment (?), n. [OF.
tenement a holding, a fief, F. t\'8anement,
LL. tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See
Tenant.] 1. (Feud. Law)
That which is held of another by service; property which one
holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military
or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
2. (Common Law) Any species of permanent
property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands,
houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a
right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also
free .
The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a
\'bdtenant,\'b8 and the manner of possession is called
\'bdtenure.\'b8
Blackstone.
3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation;
also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one
family; often, a house erected to be rented.
4. Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no
tenement, unless it has just such a sort of
frontispiece?
Locke.
Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house
erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into
separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often
applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families.
Syn. -- House; dwelling; habitation. --
Tenement, House. There may be many
houses under one roof, but they are completely
separated from each other by party walls. A tenement
may be detached by itself, or it may be part of a house divided
off for the use of a family.
Ten`e*men"tal (?), a. Of or
pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.
Blackstone.
Ten`e*men"ta*ry (?), a. Capable
of being leased; held by tenants.
Spelman.
Ten"ent (?), n. [L.
tenent they hold, 3d pers. pl. pres. of
tenere.] A tenet. [Obs.]
Bp. Sanderson.
Ten"er*al (?), a. [L.
tener, -eris, tender, delicate.]
(Zo\'94l.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a
condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after
exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and
has not fully attained its mature coloring.
Ten`er*iffe" (?), n. A white
wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in
Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called also
Vidonia.
Te*ner"i*ty (?), n. [L.
teneritas. See Tender, a.]
Tenderness. [Obs.]
Ainsworth.
Te*nes"mic (?), a. (Med.)
Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by
tenesmus.
\'d8Te*nes"mus (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr. tenesmos.] (Med.) An urgent and
distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must
take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to
the lower extremity of the rectum.
Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to
the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the
bladder.
Ten"et (?), n. [L.
tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See
Tenable.] Any opinion, principle, dogma,
belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true;
as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . .
. is a tenet very questionable.
Sir T. Browne.
The religious tenets of his family he had early
renounced with contempt.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See
Dogma.
Ten"fold` (?), a. & adv. In
tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold
More dreadful and deform.
Milton.
\'d8Te"ni*a (?), n. [NL.]
See T\'91nia.
Te"ni*oid (?), a. See
T\'91noid.
Ten"nant*ite (?), n. [Named
after Smithson Tennant, an English chemist.]
(Min.) A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely
related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic
and copper.
\'d8Ten`n\'82" (?), n. [Cf.
Tawny.] (Her.) A tincture, rarely
employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown.
It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter,
crossed by vertical lines.
Ten"nis (?), n. [OE.
tennes, tenies, tenyse; of
uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take
it, fr. tenir to hold (see Tenable).]
A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in
motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
Shak.
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and
playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London.
Macaulay.
Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played
within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished
from lawn tennis. -- Lawn tennis.
See under Lawn, n. -- Tennis
court, a place or court for playing the game of
tennis. Shak.
Ten"nis, v. t. To drive backward and
forward, as a ball in playing tennis. [R.]
Spenser.
Ten"nu (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
The tapir.
Ten"-o'*clock` (?), n.
(Bot.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under
Star.
Ten"on (?), n. [F., fr.
tenir to hold. See Tenable.]
(Carp. & Join.) A projecting member left by
cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a
mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame;
especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the
thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on
the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
Tenon saw, a saw with a thin blade, usually
stiffened by a brass or steel back, for cutting tenons.
[Corruptly written tenant saw.]
Gwilt.
Ten"on, v. t. To cut or fit for
insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
Te*no"ni*an (?), a.
(Anat.) Discovered or described by M.
Tenon, a French anatomist.
Tenonian capsule (Anat.), a
lymphatic space inclosed by a delicate membrane or fascia (the
fascia of Tenon) between the eyeball and the fat of the
orbit; -- called also capsule of
Tenon.
Ten"or (?), n. [L., from
tenere to hold; hence, properly, a holding on in a
continued course: cf. F. teneur. See Tenable,
and cf. Tenor a kind of voice.] 1. A
state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity;
constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their away.
Gray.
2. That course of thought which holds on through a
discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport;
intent; meaning; understanding.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the
tenor.
Shak.
Does not the whole tenor of the divine law
positively require humility and meekness to all men?
Spart.
3. Stamp; character; nature.
This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and
always of the same tenor.
Dryden.
4. (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set
forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from
purport, which is only the substance or general import
of the instrument.
Bouvier.
5. [F. t\'82nor, L. tenor,
properly, a holding; -- so called because the tenor was the voice
which took and held the principal part, the plain song, air, or
tune, to which the other voices supplied a harmony above and
below: cf. It. tenore.] (Mus.)
(a) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually
belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted
to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of
sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which
the other parts were auxillary. (b) A person
who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
Old Tenor, New Tenor, Middle
Tenor, different descriptions of paper money,
issued at different periods, by the American colonial governments
in the last century.
\'d8Ten`o*syn`o*vi"tis (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr. synovitis.]
(Med.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath
enveloping a tendon.
Ten"o*tome (?), n.
(Surg.) A slender knife for use in the operation
of tenotomy.
Te*not"o*my (?), n. [Gr. (Surg.) The division
of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.
Ten"pen*ny (?), a. Valued or
sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d
Penny, n.
Ten"pen*ny, a. Denoting a size of nails.
See 1st Penny.
Ten"pins (?), n. A game
resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See
Ninepins. [U. S.]
Ten"-pound`er (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A large oceanic fish (Elops
saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It
is used chiefly for bait.
Ten"rec (?), n. [From the
native name: cf. F. tanrac, tanrec,
tandrec.] (Zo\'94l.) A small
insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of
Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and
Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is
applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.
Tense (?), n. [OF.
tens, properly, time, F. temps time, tense.
See Temporal of time, and cf. Thing.]
(Gram.) One of the forms which a verb takes by
inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the
time of the action or event signified; the modification which
verbs undergo for the indication of time.
past, present, and
future; but these admit of modifications, which differ
in different languages.
Tense, a. [L. tensus, p.p. of
tendere to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf.
Toise.] Stretched tightly; strained to
stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense
fiber.
The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and
a fatal paleness was upon her.
Goldsmith.
-- Tense"ly, adv. --
Tense"ness, n.
Ten`si*bil"i*ty (?), n. The
quality or state of being tensible; tensility.
Ten"si*ble (?), a. [See
Tense, a.] Capable of being
extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.
Gold . . . is likewise the most flexible and
tensible.
Bacon.
Ten"sile (?), a. [See
Tense, a.] 1. Of or
pertaining to extension; as, tensile
strength.
2. Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.
Bacon.
Ten"siled (?), a. Made
tensile. [R.]
Ten*sil"i*ty (?), n. The
quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension;
tensibility; as, the tensility of the
muscles.
Dr. H. Mere.
Ten"sion (?), n. [L.
tensio, from tendere, tensum, to
stretch: cf. F. tension. See Tense,
a.] 1. The act of stretching or
straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness;
the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of
the muscles, tension of the larynx.
2. Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of
feeling; intense effort.
3. The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord,
piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the
direction of its length; strain.
Gwilt.
4. (Mech.) The force by which a part is
pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in
motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a
weight equals that weight.
5. A device for checking the delivery of the thread
in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree
of tightness.
6. (Physics) Expansive force; the force
with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from
each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity;
as, the tension of vapor; the tension of
air.
7. (Elec.) The quality in consequence of
which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the
air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less
electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity
upon a given area.
Tension brace, Tension
member (Engin.), a brace or member
designed to resist tension, or subjected to tension, in a
structure. -- Tension rod (Engin.),
an iron rod used as a tension member to strengthen timber or
metal framework, roofs, or the like.
Ten"sioned (?), a. Extended or
drawn out; subjected to tension. \'bdA highly
tensioned string.\'b8
Tyndall.
Ten"si*ty (?), n. The quality
or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension;
tenseness.
Ten"sive (?), a. [Cf. F.
tensif. See Tense, a.]
Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or
contraction.
A tensive pain from distension of the parts.
Floyer.
Ten"sor (?), n. [NL. See
Tension.] 1. (Anat.) A
muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
2. (Geom.) The ratio of one vector to
another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the
two vectors; -- so called because considered as a
stretching factor in changing one vector into another.
See Versor.
Ten"-strike` (?), n. 1.
(Tenpins) A knocking down of all ten pins at one
delivery of the ball<-- also, strike-->. [U.
S.]
2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
[Colloq. U.S.]
Ten"sure (?), n. [L.
tensura. See Tension.]
Tension. [Obs.]
Bacon.
Tent (?), n. [Sp.
tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L.
tinctus, p.p. of tingere to dye. See
Tinge, and cf. Tint, Tinto.]
A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or
Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and
tinta.
Tent, n. [Cf. Attent,
n.] 1. Attention; regard,
care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Lydgate.
2. Intention; design. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
Tent, v. t. To attend to; to heed;
hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
Halliwell.
Tent, v. t. [OF. tenter. See
Tempt.] To probe or to search with a tent; to
keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound.
Used also figuratively.
I'll tent him to the quick.
Shak.
Tent, n. [F. tente. See
Tent to probe.] (Surg.) (a)
A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece
of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural
canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb
discharges. (b) A probe for searching a
wound.
The tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.
Shak.
<-- p. 1486 -->
Tent (?), n. [OE.
tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr.
L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See
Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll of
lint.] 1. A pavilion or portable lodge
consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and
sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the
weather, especially soldiers in camp.
Within his tent, large as is a barn.
Chaucer.
2. (Her.) The representation of a tent
used as a bearing.
Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with
a tentlike canopy. -- Tent caterpillar
(Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of
gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken
webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species
are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American
species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa
Americana). Called also lackery
caterpillar, and webworm.
Tent, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tenting.] To lodge as a tent; to
tabernacle.
Shak.
We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground.
W. Kittredge.
Ten"ta*cle (?), n. [NL.
tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle,
feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.]
(Zo\'94l.) A more or less elongated process or
organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic
region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense,
prehension, or motion.
Tentacle sheath (Zo\'94l.), a
sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many
mollusks.
Ten"ta*cled (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Having tentacles.
Ten*tac"u*lar (?), a. [Cf. F.
tentaculaire.] (Zo\'94l.) Of or
pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
\'d8Ten*tac`u*la"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A division of
Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.
{ Ten*tac"u*late (?),
Ten*tac"u*la`ted (?), } a.
(Zo\'94l.) Having tentacles, or organs like
tentacles; tentacled.
\'d8Ten`ta*cu*lif"e*ra (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Suctoria, 1.
Ten`ta*cu*lif"er*ous (?), a.
[Tentaculum + -ferous.]
(Zo\'94l.) Producing or bearing tentacles.
Ten`ta*cu"li*form (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.)Shaped like a tentacle.
Ten*tac"u*lite (?), n.
(Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of small,
conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed
to be pteropods.
Ten*tac"u*lo*cyst (?), n.
[Tentaculum + cyst.]
(Zo\'94l.) One of the auditory organs of certain
medus\'91; -- called also auditory
tentacle.
\'d8Ten*tac"u*lum (?), n.; pl.
Tentacula (#). [NL. See
Tentacle.] 1. (Zo\'94l.)
A tentacle.
2. (Anat.) One of the stiff hairs
situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and
supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.
Tent"age (?), n. [From
Tent a pavilion.] A collection of tents; an
encampment. [Obs.]
Drayton.
Ten*ta"tion (?), n. [L.
tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See
Temptation.] 1. Trial;
temptation. [Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
2. (Mech.) A mode of adjusting or
operating by repeated trials or experiments.
Knight.
Ten*ta"tive (?), a. [L.
tentare to try: cf. F. tentatif. See
Tempt.] Of or pertaining to a trial or
trials; essaying; experimental. \'bdA slow,
tentative manner.\'b8 Carlyle. --
Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.
Ten*ta"tive, n. [Cf. F.
tentative.] An essay; a trial; an
experiment.
Berkley.
Tent"ed (?), a. Covered with
tents.
Ten"ter (?), n. 1. One
who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of
assistant foreman.
2. (Mach.) A kind of governor.
Ten"ter, n. [OE. tenture,
tentoure, OF. tenture a stretching,
spreading, F. tenture hangings, tapestry, from L.
tendere, tentum, to stretch. See
Tend to move.] A machine or frame for
stretching cloth by means of hooks, called
tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and
square.
Tenter ground, a place where tenters are
erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail
used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on
the tenters, on the tenter-hooks,
to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or
suspense. Hudibras.
Ten"ter, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tentered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tentering.] To admit
extension.
Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.
Bacon.
Ten"ter, v. t. To hang or stretch on, or
as on, tenters.
Tent"ful (?), n.; pl.
Tentfuls (. As much, or as
many, as a tent will hold.
Tenth (?), a. [From
Ten: cf. OE. tethe, AS.
te\'a2. See Ten, and cf.
Tithe.] 1. Next in order after the
ninth; coming after nine others.
2. Constituting or being one of ten equal parts
into which anything is divided.
Tenth (?), n. 1. The
next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine
others.
2. The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of
ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
3. The tenth part of annual produce, income,
increase, or the like; a tithe.
Shak.
4. (Mus.) The interval between any tone
and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above
it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above;
the octave of the third.
5. pl. (Eng. Law) (a)
A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and
granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part
of all the movables belonging to the subject. (b)
(Eccl. Law) The tenth part of the annual profit
of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but
afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the
fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
<-- (b) sic. = tithe? what kind of "living"?? prob. living, n. 5
= "the benefice of a clergyman" -->
Burrill.
Tenth"ly, adv. In a tenth manner.
{ Tenth"me`ter, Tenth"me`tre }
(?), n. (Physics) A unit for
the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010
of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a
millimeter.
\'d8Ten`thre*din"i*des (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A group of Hymneoptera comprising the
sawflies.
Ten"tif (?), a.
Attentive. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Ten"tif*ly, adv. Attentively.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Ten*tig"i*nous (?), a. [L.
tentigo, -inis, a tension, lecherousness,
fr. tendere, tentum, to stretch.]
1. Stiff; stretched; strained.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
2. Lustful, or pertaining to lust.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Tent"mak`er (?), n. One whose
occupation it is to make tents.
Acts xviii. 3.
\'d8Ten*to"ri*um (?), n. [L., a
tent.] (Anat.) A fold of the dura mater
which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often
incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony
tentorium.
Tent"o*ry (?), n. [L.
tentorium a tent.] The awning or covering
of a tent. [Obs.]
Evelyn.
Tent"wort` (?), n. (Bot.)
A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under
Wall.
Ten"u*ate (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tenuated
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tenuating.] [L. tenuatus,
p.p. of tenuare to make thin, fr. tenuis
thin. See Tenuous.] To make thin; to
attenuate. [R.]
Ten`u*i*fo"li*ous (?), a. [L.
tenuis thin + folium a leaf.]
(Bot.) Having thin or narrow leaves.
Te*nu"i*ous (?), a. [See
Tenuous.] Rare or subtile; tenuous; --
opposed to dense. [Obs.]
Glanvill.
Ten`u*i*ros"ter (?), n.; pl.
Tenuirosters (#). [NL., fr. L.
tenuis thin + rostrum a beak.]
(Zo\'94l.) One of the Tenuirostres.
Ten`u*i*ros"tral (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with
a slender bill, as the humming birds.
\'d8Ten`u*i*ros"tres (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) An artificial group
of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming
birds.
\'d8Ten"u*is (?), n.; pl.
Tenues (#). [NL., fr. L.
tenuis fine, thin. See Tenuous.]
(Gr. Gram.) One of the three surd mutes
Te*nu"i*ty (?), n. [L.
tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F.
t\'82nuit\'82. See Tenuous.]
1. The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness,
applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything
that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the
tenuity of a hair.
2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid;
as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of
the blood.
Bacon.
3. Poverty; indigence. [Obs.]
Eikon Basilike.
4. Refinement; delicacy.
Ten"u*ous (?), a. [L.
tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf.
Tenuis.] 1. Thin; slender; small;
minute.
2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of
fluids.
<-- 3. Fig. Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
-->
Ten"ure (?), n. [F.
tenure, OF. teneure, fr. F.
tenir to hold. See Tenable.]
1. The act or right of holding, as property,
especially real estate.
That the tenure of estates might rest on equity,
the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted.
Bancroft.
2. (Eng. Law) The manner of holding
lands and tenements of a superior.
3. The consideration, condition, or service which
the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of
his land.
4. Manner of holding, in general; as, in
absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious
tenure.
All that seems thine own,
Held by the tenure of his will alone.
Cowper.
Tenure by fee alms. (Law) See
Frankalmoigne.
Te`o*cal"li (?), n.; pl.
Teocallis (#). [Mexican.]
Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form,
such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan,
etc.
And Aztec priests upon their teocallis
Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin.
Longfellow.
Te`o*sin"te (?), n.
(Bot.) A large grass (Euchl\'91na
luxurians) closely related to maize. It is native of Mexico
and Central America, but is now cultivated for fodder in the
Southern United States and in many warm countries. Called also
Guatemala grass.
Tep"al (?), n. [F.
t\'82pale, fr. p\'82tale, by
transposition.] (Bot.) A division of a
perianth. [R.]
Tep*ee" (?), n. An Indian
wigwam or tent.<-- also teepee -->
Tep`e*fac"tion (?), n. Act of
tepefying.
Tep"e*fy (?), v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Tepefied
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tepefying
(?).] [L. tepere to be tepid
+ -fy; cf. L. tepefacere. See
Tepid.] To make or become tepid, or
moderately warm.
Goldsmith.
Teph"ra*man`cy (?), n. [Gr. -mancy.] Divination by the ashes of
the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
Teph"rite (?), n. [Gr. (Geol.) An igneous rock consisting
essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or
both.
Teph"ro*ite (?), n. [See
Tephrosia.] (Min.) A silicate of
manganese of an ash-gray color.
\'d8Te*phro"si*a (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr. (Bot.)
A genus of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found
in tropical countries, a few herbaceous species being North
American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the
name.
Tephrosia toxicaria is used in the
West Indies and in Polynesia for stupefying fish. T.
purpurea is used medicinally in the East Indies.
T. Virginia is the goat's rue of the United
States.
Tep"id (?), a. [L.
tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to
Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.]
Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath;
tepid rays; tepid vapors. --
Tep"id*ness, n.
Te*pid"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F.
t\'82pidit\'82.] The quality or state of
being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness.
Jer. Taylor.
Te"por (?), n. [L., fr.
tepere to be tepid.] Gentle heat; moderate
warmth; tepidness.
Arbuthnot.
Te*qui"la (?), n. An
intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of
Tequila, Mexico.
Ter- (?). A combining form from L.
ter signifying three times,
thrice. See Tri-, 2.
Ter`a*con"ic (?), a.
[Terebic + citraconic.]
(Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid
obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and homologous with
citraconic acid.
Ter`a*cryl"ic (?), a.
[Terpene + acrylic.]
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an
acid of the acrylic series, obtained by the distillation of
terpenylic acid, as an only substance having a peculiar cheesy
odor.
Ter"aph (?), n.; pl.
Teraphs (. See
Teraphim.
Ter"a*phim (?), n. pl. [Heb.
ter\'beph\'c6m.] Images connected with the
magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt
practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by
the Israelites for oracular answers.
Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.).
Ter"a*pin (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) See Terrapin.
Te*rat"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. Wonderful; ominous; prodigious.
[Obs.]
Wollaston.
Ter`a*tog"e*ny (?), n. [Gr.
(Med.) The formation of monsters.
Ter"a*toid (?), a. [Gr. -oid.] Resembling a monster;
abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly
organized.
S. D. Gross.
Ter`a*to*log"ic*al (?), a.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to teratology; as,
teratological changes.
Ter`a*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr.
-logy: cf. Gr. t\'82ratologie.]
1. That branch of biological science which treats
of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal
type of structure, either in plants or animals.
2. Affectation of sublimity; bombast.
[Obs.]
Bailey.
Ter`a*to"ma (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. -oma.] (Med.)
A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made
up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage
and muscle.
Ter"bic (?), a. (Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating
certain of its compounds.
Ter"bi*um (?), n. [NL., fr.
Ytterby, in Sweden. See Erbium.]
(Chem.) A rare metallic element, of uncertain
identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as
gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth.
Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.
Terce (?), n. See
Tierce.
Ter"cel (?), n. See
Tiercel. Called also tarsel,
tassel.
Chaucer.
Terce"let (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A male hawk or eagle; a
tiercelet.
Chaucer.
Ter"cel*lene (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A small male hawk.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.
Ter*cen"te*na*ry (?), a. [L.
ter thirce + E. centenary.]
Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred
years. -- n. The three hundredth
anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an
anniversary.
Ter"cet (?), n. [F., fr. It.
terzetto, dim. of terzo, third, L.
tertius. See Tierce, and cf.
Terzetto.] 1. (Mus.) A
triplet.
Hiles.
2. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three
lines.
Ter"cine (?), n. [F., from L.
tertius the third.] (Bot.) A
cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and
surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.
Ter"e*bate (?), n. A salt of
terebic acid.
Ter"e*bene (?), n.
(Chem.) A polymeric modification of terpene,
obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called
also camphene. By extension, any one of a
group of related substances.
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Ter`e*ben"thene (?), n.
(Chem.) Oil of turpentine. See
Turpentine.
Te*reb"ic (?), a. (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene (oil of
turpentine); specifically, designating an acid,
C7H10O4, obtained by the oxidation of
terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white crystalline
substance.
Ter`e*bi*len"ic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a
complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white
crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic
acid.
Ter"e*binth (?), n. [L.
terbinthus, Gr. t\'82r\'82binthe. Cf. Turpentine.]
(Bot.) The turpentine tree.
Ter`e*bin"thic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of or pertaining to turpentine;
resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic
qualities.
Ter`e*bin"thi*nate (?), a.
Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine;
terbinthine.
Ter`e*bin"thine (?), a. [L.
terbinthinus, Gr. Of or pertaining to
turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its
qualities.
\'d8Ter"e*bra (?), n.; pl. E.
Terebras (#), L. Terebr\'91
(#). [L., a borer.] 1.
(Zo\'94l.) A genus of marine gastropods having a
long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also
auger shell.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The boring ovipositor of a
hymenopterous insect.
Ter"e*brant (?), a. [L.
terebrans, -antis, p.pr.]
(Zo\'94l.) Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said
of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.
\'d8Ter`e*bran"ti*a (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A division of
Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for
perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
Ter"e*brate (?), v. t. [L.
terebratus, p.p. of terebrare, from
terebra a borer, terere to rub.]
To perforate; to bore; to pierce. [R.]
Sir T. Browne.
Ter"e*bra`ting (?), a. 1.
(Zo\'94l.) Boring; perforating; -- applied to
molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.
2. (Med.) Boring; piercing; -- applied
to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor
ataxia.
Ter`e*bra"tion (?), n. [L.
terebratio.] The act of terebrating, or
boring. [R.]
Bacon.
\'d8Ter`e*brat"u*la (?), n.;
pl. Terebratul\'91 (#). [Nl.,
dim. fr. terebratus, p.p., perforated.]
(Zo\'94l.) A genus of brachiopods which includes
many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a
perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for
attachment. Called also lamp shell.
Ter`e*brat"u*lid (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any species of Terebratula or allied
genera. Used also adjectively.
Ter`e*bra*tu"li*form (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Having the general form of a
terebratula shell.
Ter"e*dine (?), n. [F.
t\'82r\'82dine.] (Zo\'94l.) A
borer; the teredo.
Te*re"do (?), n.; pl. E.
Teredos (#), L. Teredines
(#). [L., a worm that gnaws wood, clothes,
etc.; akin to Gr. terere to rub.]
(Zo\'94l.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike
bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the
piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also
shipworm. See Shipworm. See
Illust. in App.
Ter*eph"tha*late (?), n.
(Chem.) A salt of terephthalic acid.
Ter`eph*thal"ic (?), a.
[Terebene + phthalic.]
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a
dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic
acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by
the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also
paraphthalic acid. Cf.
Phthalic.
Ter"et (?), a. Round;
terete. [Obs.]
Fotherby.
Te*rete" (?), a. [L.
teres, -etis, rounded off, properly, rubbed
off, fr. terere to rub.] Cylindrical and
slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.
Te*re"tial (?), a. [See
Terete.] (Anat.) Rounded; as,
the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle
of the brain of some fishes.
Owen.
Ter"e*tous (?), a.
Terete. [Obs.]
Ter"gal (?), a. [L.
tergum the back.] (Anat. & Zo\'94l.)
Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See
Dorsal.
Ter"gant (?), a. (Her.)
Showing the back; as, the eagle
tergant. [Written also
tergiant.]
{ Ter*gem"i*nal (?),
Ter*gem"i*nate (?), } a.
[See Tergeminous.] (Bot.)
Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.
Ter*gem"i*nous (?), a. [L.
tergeminus; ter thrice + geminus
doubled at birth, twin-born. Cf. Trigeminous.]
Threefold; thrice-paired.
Blount.
Ter*gif"er*ous (?), a. [L.
tergum the back + -ferous.]
Carrying or bearing upon the back.
Tergiferous plants (Bot.), plants
which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as
ferns.
Ter"gite (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or
somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under
Coleoptera.
Ter"gi*ver*sate (?), v. i. [L.
tergiversatus, p.p. of tergiversari to turn
one's back, to shift; tergum back +
versare, freq. of vertere to turn. See
Verse.] To shift; to practice evasion; to use
subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.]
Bailey.
Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion (?), n. [L.
tergiversario: cf. F.
tergiversation.] 1. The act of
tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being
freer from passions and tergiversations.
Abp. Bramhall.
2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy;
change.
The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost
his life in the king's service.
Clarendon.
Ter"gi*ver*sa`tor (?), n.
[L.] One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or
practices evasion.
\'d8Ter"gum (?), n.; pl.
Terga (#). [L., the back.]
(Zo\'94l.) (a) The back of an
animal. (b) The dorsal piece of a somite of
an articulate animal. (c) One of the dorsal
plates of the operculum of a cirriped.
Te"rin (?), n. [F.
tarin, Prov. F. tairin,
t\'82rin, probably from the Picard t\'8are
tender.] (Zo\'94l.) A small yellow singing
bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also
tarin.
Term (?), n. [F.
terme, L. termen, -inis,
terminus, a boundary limit, end; akin to Gr. Thrum a tuft, and cf. Terminus,
Determine, Exterminate.] 1.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity;
bound; boundary.
Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as
nature's two terms, or boundaries.
Bacon.
2. The time for which anything lasts; any limited
time; as, a term of five years; the term of
life.
3. In universities, schools, etc., a definite
continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to
students; as, the school year is divided into three
terms.
4. (Geom.) A point, line, or
superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of
a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a
solid.
5. (Law) A fixed period of time; a
prescribed duration; as: (a) The limitation
of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is
granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of
years. (b) A space of time granted to a
debtor for discharging his obligation. (c)
The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial
of causes.
Bouvier.
vacation. But this division has been practically
abolished by the Judicature Acts of 1873, 1875, which provide for
the more convenient arrangement of the terms and vacations.
In the United States, the terms to be observed by the
tribunals of justice are prescribed by the statutes of Congress
and of the several States.
6. (Logic) The subject or the predicate
of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a
syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after
Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
Sir W. Hamilton.
major term, because it is the most general, and the
subject of the conclusion is called the minor term,
because it is less general. These are called the
extermes; and the third term, introduced as a common
measure between them, is called the mean or
middle term. Thus in the following syllogism, --
Every vegetable is combustible;
Every tree is a vegetable;
Therefore every tree is combustible, -
combustible, the predicate of the conclusion, is the
major term; tree is the minor term;
vegetable is the middle term.
7. A word or expression; specifically, one that has
a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is
peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a
technical term. \'bdTerms quaint
of law.\'b8
Chaucer.
In painting, the greatest beauties can not always be expressed
for want of terms.
Dryden.
8. (Arch.) A quadrangular pillar,
adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman,
or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See
Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
Terms rudely carved were
formerly used for landmarks or boundaries. Gwilt.
9. (Alg.) A member of a compound
quantity; as, a or b in a +
b; ab or cd in ab -
cd.
10. pl. (Med.) The
menses.
11. pl. (Law) Propositions
or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted
by another, settle the contract and bind the parties;
conditions.
12. (Law) In Scotland, the time fixed
for the payment of rents.
Terms legal and conventional in Scotland
correspond to quarter days in England and Ireland.
There are two legal terms -- Whitsunday, May 15, and
Martinmas, Nov. 11; and two conventional terms --
Candlemas, Feb. 2, and Lammas day, Aug. 1. Mozley &
W.
13. (Naut.) A piece of carved work
placed under each end of the taffrail.
J. Knowels.
In term, in set terms; in formal phrase.
[Obs.]
I can not speak in term.
Chaucer.
-- Term fee (Law) (a), a fee
by the term, chargeable to a suitor, or by law fixed and taxable
in the costs of a cause for each or any term it is in court.
-- Terms of a proportion (Math.), the
four members of which it is composed. -- To bring to
terms, to compel (one) to agree, assent, or submit; to
force (one) to come to terms. -- To make terms,
to come to terms; to make an agreement: to agree.
Syn. -- Limit; bound; boundary; condition; stipulation;
word; expression. -- Term, Word.
These are more frequently interchanged than almost any other
vocables that occur of the language. There is, however, a
difference between them which is worthy of being kept in mind.
Word is generic; it denotes an utterance which
represents or expresses our thoughts and feelings.
Term originally denoted one of the two essential
members of a proposition in logic, and hence signifies a word of
specific meaning, and applicable to a definite class of objects.
Thus, we may speak of a scientific or a technical
term, and of stating things in distinct
terms. Thus we say, \'bdthe term minister
literally denotes servant;\'b8 \'bdan exact definition of
terms is essential to clearness of thought;\'b8 \'bdno
term of reproach can sufficiently express my
indignation;\'b8 \'bdevery art has its peculiar and distinctive
terms,\'b8 etc. So also we say, \'bdpurity of style
depends on the choice of words, and precision of style
on a clear understanding of the terms used.\'b8
Term is chiefly applied to verbs, nouns, and
adjectives, these being capable of standing as terms in a logical
proposition; while prepositions and conjunctions, which can never
be so employed, are rarely spoken of as terms, but
simply as words.
Term (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Termed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Terming.]
[See Term, n., and cf.
Terminate.] To apply a term to; to name; to
call; to denominate.
Men term what is beyond the limits of the universe
\'bdimaginary space.\'b8
Locke.
\'d8Ter"ma (?), n. [NL. See
Term, n.] (Anat.) The
terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of
the third ventricle of the brain.
B. G. Wilder.
Ter"ma*gan*cy (?), n. The
quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness;
as, a violent termagancy of temper.
Ter"ma*gant (?), n. [OE.
Trivigant, Termagant, Termagant (in sense
1), OF. Tervagan; cf. It.
Trivigante.] 1. An imaginary being
supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan deity or false god.
He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet
shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous.
[Obs.] Chaucer. \'bdAnd oftentimes by
Termagant and Mahound [Mahomet] swore.\'b8
Spenser.
The lesser part on Christ believed well,
On Termagant the more, and on Mahound.
Fairfax.
2. A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; --
formerly applied to both sexes, now only to women.
This terrible termagant, this Nero, this
Pharaoh.
Bale (1543).
The slave of an imperious and reckless
termagant.
Macaulay.
Ter"ma*gant, a. Tumultuous; turbulent;
boisterous; furious; quarrelsome; scolding. --
Ter"ma*gant*ly, adv.
A termagant, imperious, prodigal, profligate
wench.
Arbuthnot.
\'d8Ter`ma*ta"ri*um (?), n.
[NL. See Termes.] (Zo\'94l.)
Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.
Ter"ma*ta*ry (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Termatarium.
Term"er (?), n. 1. One
who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to
practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.
[Obs.] [Written also
termor.]
B. Jonson.
2. (Law) One who has an estate for a
term of years or for life.
\'d8Ter"mes (?), n.; pl.
Termities (#). [L.
termes, tarmes, -itis, a
woodworm. Cf. Termite.] (Zo\'94l.)
A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or
termites. See Termite.
Ter"mi*na*ble (?), a. [See
Terminate.] Capable of being terminated or
bounded; limitable. --
Ter"mi*na*ble*ness, n.
Terminable annuity, an annuity for a stated,
definite number of years; -- distinguished from life
annuity, and perpetual annuity.
Ter"mi*nal (?), a. [L.
terminals: cf. F. terminal. See
Term, n.] 1. Of or
pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity;
as, a terminal edge.
2. (Bot.) Growing at the end of a branch
or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or
spike.
Terminal moraine. See the Note under
Moraine. -- Terminal statue. See
Terminus, n., 2 and 3. -- Terminal
velocity. (a) The velocity acquired at the end
of a body's motion. (b) The limit toward which
the velocity of a body approaches, as of a body falling through
the air.
Ter"mi*nal, n. 1. That which
terminates or ends; termination; extremity.
2. (Eccl.) Either of the ends of the
conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium,
dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws
for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed
into or from the machine; a pole.
<-- 3. (a) The station at either end of a line used by a carrier
(as a bus line or railroad) for transporting freight or
passengers; also, a station on such a line which serves a large
area. (b) The city in which the terminal is located.
bus terminal, a station where passenger buses start or end a
trip. freight terminal, a terminal used for loading or unloading
of freight. -->
\'d8Ter`mi*na"li*a (?), n. pl.
[L.] (Rom. Antiq.) A festival
celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of
Terminus, the god of boundaries.
Ter"mi*nant (?), n. [L.
terminans, p.pr. of terminare.]
Termination; ending. [R.]
Puttenham.
Ter"mi*nate (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Terminated
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Terminating.] [L.
terminatus, p.p. of terminare. See
Term.] 1. To set a term or limit to;
to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as,
to terminate a surface by a line.
2. To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to
terminate an effort, or a controversy.
3. Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring
to completion; to perfect.
During this interval of calm and prosperity, he [Michael
Angelo] terminated two figures of slaves, destined for
the tomb, in an incomparable style of art.
J. S. Harford.
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Ter"mi*nate (?), v. i. 1.
To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop
short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone
terminates at the tropics.
2. To come to a limit in time; to end; to
close.
The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy,
terminate on zhis side heaven.
South.
Ter`mi*na"tion (?), n. [L.
terminatio a bounding, fixing, determining: cf. F.
terminasion, OF. also termination. See
Term.] 1. The act of terminating, or
of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding;
as, a voluntary termination of
hostilities.
2. That which ends or bounds; limit in space or
extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a
line.
3. End in time or existence; as, the
termination of the year, or of life; the
termination of happiness.
4. End; conclusion; result.
Hallam.
5. Last purpose of design. [R.]
6. A word; a term. [R. & Obs.]
Shak.
7. (Gram.) The ending of a word; a final
syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.
Ter`mi*na"tion*al (?), a. Of or
pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
Ter"mi*na*tive (?), a. Tending
or serving to terminate; terminating; determining;
definitive. Bp. Rust. --
Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer.
Taylor.
Ter"mi*na`tor (?), n. [L., he
who limits or sets bounds.] 1. One who, or
that which, terminates.
2. (Astron.) The dividing line between
the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.
<-- The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger. -->
Ter"mi*na*to*ry (?), a.
Terminative.
Ter"mine (?), v. t. [Cf. F.
terminer.] To terminate.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.
Ter"mi*ner (?), n. [F.
terminer to bound, limit, end. See
Terminate.] (Law) A determining;
as, in oyer and terminer. See
Oyer.
Ter"mi*nism (?), n. The
doctrine held by the Terminists.
Ter"mi*nist (?), n. [Cf. F.
terministe.] (Theol.) One of a
class of theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain
term for the probation of individual persons, during which
period, and no longer, they have the offer to grace.
Murdock.
Ter`mi*no*log"ic*al (?), a. Of
or pertaining to terminology. --
Ter`mi*no*log"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Ter`mi*nol"o*gy (?), n. [L.
terminus term + -logy: cf. F.
terminologie.] 1. The doctrine of
terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on
terms.
2. The terms actually used in any business, art,
science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the
terminology of chemistry.
The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of
sentence, and a terminology altogether new.
De Quincey.
Ter"mi*nus (?), n.; pl.
Termini (#). [L. See
Term.] 1. Literally, a boundary; a
border; a limit.
2. (Myth.) The Roman divinity who
presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short
pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the
like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a
boundary line.
3. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a
term. See Term, 8.
4. Either end of a railroad line; also, the station
house, or the town or city, at that place.
Ter"mite (?), n.; pl.
Termites (#). [F. See
Termes.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of
numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to
Termes and allied genera; -- called also
white ant. See Illust. of White
ant.
soldiers.
Term"less (?), a. 1.
Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending;
as, termless time. [R.]
\'bdTermless joys.\'b8
Sir W. Raleigh.
2. Inexpressible; indescribable.
[R.]
Shak.
Term"ly (?), a. Occurring every
term; as, a termly fee. [R.]
Bacon.
Term"ly, adv. Term by term; every
term. [R.] \'bdFees . . . that are
termly given.\'b8
Bacon.
Ter`mo*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr.
-logy.]
Terminology. [R.]
Term"or (?), n. (Law)
Same as Termer, 2.
Tern (?), n. [Dan.
terne, t\'91rne; akin to Sw.
t\'84rna, Icel. ; cf. NL.
sterna.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of
numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the
gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied
genera.
Sterna
hirundo) is found also in Asia and America. Among other
American species are the arctic tern (S.
paradis\'91a), the roseate tern (S. Dougalli),
the least tern (S. Antillarum), the royal tern
(S. maxima), and the sooty tern (S.
fuliginosa).
Hooded tern. See Fairy bird,
under Fairy. -- Marsh tern, any tern
of the genus Hydrochelidon. They frequent marshes and
rivers and feed largely upon insects. -- River
tern, any tern belonging to Se\'89na or
allied genera which frequent rivers. -- Sea tern,
any tern of the genus Thalasseus. Terns of this
genus have very long, pointed wings, and chiefly frequent seas
and the mouths of large rivers.
Tern (?), a. [L. pl.
terni three each, three; akin to tres
three. See Three, and cf. Trine.]
Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
Tern flowers (Bot.), flowers
growing three and three together. -- Tern leaves
(Bot.), leaves arranged in threes, or three by
three, or having three in each whorl or set. -- Tern
peduncles (Bot.), three peduncles growing
together from the same axis. -- Tern schooner
(Naut.), a three-masted schooner.
Tern, n. [F. terne. See
Tern, a.] That which consists of,
or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a
prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of
three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers
themselves.
She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery.
Mrs. Browning.
Ter"na*ry (?), a. [L.
ternarius, fr. terni. See Tern,
a.] 1. Proceeding by threes;
consisting of three; as, the ternary number was
anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great
veneration.
2. (Chem.) Containing, or consisting of,
three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals,
which are regarded as having different functions or relations in
the molecule; thus, sodic hydroxide, NaOH,
is a ternary compound.
Ter"na*ry, n.; pl. Ternaries
(. A ternion; the number three; three
things taken together; a triad.
Some in ternaries, some in pairs, and some
single.
Holder.
Ter"nate (?), a. [NL.
ternatus, fr. L. terni three each. See
Tern, a.] Having the parts
arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or
flowers. -- Ter"nate*ly,
adv.
Terne"plate` (?), n. [See
Tern, a., and Plate.]
Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so
called because made up of three metals.
Ter"ni*on (?), n. [L.
ternio, fr. terni three each. See
Tern, a.] The number three; three
things together; a ternary.
Bp. Hall.
Ter"pene (?), n. [See
Turpentine.] (Chem.) Any one of a
series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor,
occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil
of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in
some essential oils.
Ter*pen"tic (?), a.
(Chem.) Terpenylic.
Ter`pe*nyl"ic (?), a.
[Terpene + -yl +
-ic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to,
or designating, an acid, C8H12O4 (called also
terpentic acid), homologous with terebic acid, and
obtained as a white crystalline substance by the oxidation of oil
of turpentine with chromic acid.
Ter"pi*lene (?), n.
(Chem.) A polymeric form of terpene, resembling
terbene.
Ter"pin (?), n. (Chem.)
A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil
of turpentine.
Ter"pin*ol (?), n.
[Terpin + L. oleum oil.]
(Chem.) Any oil substance having a hyacinthine
odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as
a related hydrate.
Terp*sich"o*re (?), n. [L., fr.
Gr. (Gr. Myth.) The Muse who presided
over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.
Terp`sich*o*re"an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.
\'d8Ter"ra (?), n. [It. & L.
See Terrace.] The earth; earth.
Terra alba [L., white earth]
(Com.), a white amorphous earthy substance
consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some
similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to
adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc. --
Terra cotta. [It., fr. terra earth +
cotta, fem. of cotto cooked, L.
coctus, p.p. of coquere to cook. See
Cook, n.] Baked clay; a kind of
hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations,
figures, vases, and the like. -- Terr\'91 filius
[L., son of the earth], formerly, one appointed to
write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University
of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge,
England. -- Terra firma [L.], firm
or solid earth, as opposed to water. --
Terra Japonica. [NL.] Same as
Gambier. It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth
from Japan. -- Terra Lemnia [L., Lemnian
earth], Lemnian earth. See under Lemnian.
-- Terra ponderosa [L., ponderous earth]
(Min.), barite, or heavy spar. -- Terra
di Sienna. See Sienna.
Ter"race (?), n. [F.
terrasse (cf. Sp. terraza, It.
terrazza), fr. L. terra the earth, probably
for tersa, originally meaning, dry land, and akin to
torrere to parch, E. torrid, and
thirst. See Thirst, and cf.
Fumitory, Inter, v.,
Patterre, Terrier, Trass,
Tureen, Turmeric.] 1. A
raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one
or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether
designed for use or pleasure.
2. A balcony, especially a large and uncovered
one.
3. A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of
the Oriental nations are covered with
terraces.
4. A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the
side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.
5. (Geol.) A level plain, usually with a
steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the
sea.
Terrace epoch. (Geol.) See
Drift epoch, under Drift,
a.
Ter"race, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Terraced (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Terracing (?).] To
form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or
terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a
building.
Sir H. Wotton.
Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves.
Thomson.
Ter"ra*cul`ture (?), n. [L.
terra the earth + cultura.]
Cultivation on the earth; agriculture.
[R.] -- Ter`ra*cul"tur*al
(#), a. [R.]
Ter"rane (?), n. [F.
terrain, from L. terra earth.]
(Geol.) A group of rocks having a common age or
origin; -- nearly equivalent to formation, but used
somewhat less comprehensively.
Ter"ra*pin (?), n. [Probably of
American Indian origin.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one
of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish
waters. Many of them are valued for food. [Written
also terapin, terrapen,
terrapene, and turapen.]
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Pseudemys
acebra) of the Southern United States, the red-bellied
terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa), native of the tributaries
Chesapeake Bay (called also potter,
slider, and redfender), and
the diamond-back or salt-marsh terrapin (Malaclemmys
palustris), are the most important American species. The
diamond-back terrapin is native of nearly the whole of the
Atlantic coast of the United States.
Alligator terrapin, the snapping turtle.
-- Mud terrapin, any one of numerous species of
American tortoises of the genus Cinosternon. --
Painted terrapin, the painted turtle. See under
Painted. -- Speckled terrapin, a
small fresh-water American terrapin (Chelopus
guttatus) having the carapace black with round yellow
spots; -- called also spotted
turtle.
Ter*ra"que*ous (?), a. [L.
terra the earth + E. aqueous.]
Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a
terraqueous globe.
Cudworth.
The grand terraqueous spectacle
From center to circumference unveiled.
Wordsworth.
Ter"rar (?), n. [LL.
terrarius liber. See Terrier a collection of
acknowledgments.] (O. Eng. Law) See 2d
Terrier, 2.
Ter"ras (?), n. (Min.)
See .
Ter*reen" (?), n. See
Turren.
Ter*re"i*ty (?), n. Quality of
being earthy; earthiness. [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Ter"rel (?), n. [NL.
terrella, from L. terra the earth.]
A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc.,
correspond to those of the earth. [Obs.]
Chambers.
Terre"mote` (?), n. [OF.
terremote, terremoete, fr. L.
terra the earth + movere, motum,
to move.] An earthquake. [Obs.]
Gower.
Ter*rene" (?), n. A
tureen. [Obs.]
Walpole.
Ter*rene", a. [L. terrenus,
fr. terra the earth. See Terrace.]
1. Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as,
terrene substance.
Holland.
2. Earthy; terrestrial.
God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature
celestial and terrene.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and
faith to bear of life and limb, and terrene honor.
O. Eng. Oath of Allegiance, quoted by Blackstone.
Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of
our terrene experience.
Hickok.
Ter*rene", n. [L. terrenum
land, ground: cf. F. terrain.] 1.
The earth's surface; the earth. [Poetic]
Tenfold the length of this terrene.
Milton.
2. (Surv.) The surface of the
ground.
Ter*ren"i*ty (?), n.
Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] \'bdA
dull and low terrenity.\'b8
Feltham.
Ter"re*ous (?), a. [L.
terreus, fr. terra the earth. See
Terrace.] Consisting of earth; earthy;
as, terreous substances; terreous
particles. [Obs.]
Terre"plein` (?), n. [F., fr.
L. terra earth + planus even, level,
plain.] (Fort.) The top, platform, or
horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed.
See Illust. of Casemate.
Ter*res"tre (?), a. [OE., from
OF. & F. terrestre.] Terrestrial;
earthly. [Obs.] \'bdHis paradise
terrestre.\'b8
Chaucer.
Ter*res"tri*al (?), a. [L.
terrestris, from terra the earth. See
Terrace.] 1. Of or pertaining to the
earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as,
terrestrial animals. \'bdBodies
terrestrial.\'b8
1 Cor. xv. 40.
2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth;
as, a terrestrial globe. \'bdThe dark
terrestrial ball.\'b8
Addison.
3. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present
state; sublunary; mundane.
Vain labors of terrestrial wit.
Spenser.
A genius bright and base,
Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims.
Young.
4. Consisting of land, in distinction from water;
belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction
from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial
serpents.
The terrestrial parts of the globe.
Woodward.
5. Adapted for the observation of objects on land
and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in
distinction from an astronomical telescope.
-- Ter*res"tri*al*ly, adv. --
Ter*res"tri*al*ness, n.
Ter*res"tri*al, n. An inhabitant of the
earth.
Ter*res"tri*fy (?), v. t. [L.
terrestris terrestrial + -fy.]
To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the
earth; to make earthy. [Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Ter*res"tri*ous (?), a. [See
Terrestrial.] Terrestrial.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Ter"ret (?), n. One of the
rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the
reins pass.
Terre"-ten`ant (?), n. [F.
terre earth, land + tenant, p.pr. of
tenir to hold.] (Law) One who
has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
[Written also ter-tenant.]
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Terre"-verte` (?), n. [F., fr.
terre earth + vert, verte,
green.] An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See
Glauconite.
Ter"ri*ble (?), a. [F., fr. L.
terribilis, fr. terrere to frighten. See
Terror.] 1. Adapted or likely to
excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
Prudent in peace, and terrible in war.
Prior.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is
among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Deut. vii. 21.
2. Excessive; extreme; severe.
[Colloq.]
The terrible coldness of the season.
Clarendon.
Syn. -- Terrific; fearful; frightful; formidable; dreadful;
horrible; shocking; awful.
-- Ter"ri*ble*ness, n. --
Ter"ri*bly, adv.
\'d8Ter*ric"o*l\'91 (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. terra + colere to inhabit.]
(Zo\'94l.) A division of annelids including the
common earthworms and allied species.
Ter`ri*en"ni*ak (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The arctic fox.
Ter"ri*er (?), n. [CF. L.
terere to rub, to rub away, terebra a
borer.] An auger or borer. [Obs.]
Ter"ri*er, n. 1. [F.
terrier, chien terrier, from
terre the earth, L. terra; cf. F.
terrier a burrow, LL. terrarium a hillock
(hence the sense, a mound thrown up in making a burrow, a
burrow). See Terrace, and cf. Terrier,
2.] (Zo\'94l.) One of a breed of small
dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which,
such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair
and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the
black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and
upright ears.
Fox terrier, under Fox.
2. [F. terrier, papier
terrier, LL. terrarius liber, i.e., a book
belonging or pertaining to land or landed estates. See
Terrier, 1, and cf. Terrar.]
(Law) (a) Formerly, a collection of
acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship,
containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the
like. (b) In modern usage, a book or roll in
which the lands of private persons or corporations are described
by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like.
[Written also terrar.]
Ter*rif"ic (?), a. [L.
terrificus; fr. terrere to frighten +
facere to make. See Terror, and
Fact.] Causing terror; adapted to excite
great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form;
a terrific sight.
Ter*rif"ic*al (?), a.
Terrific. [R.]
Ter*rif"ic*al*ly, adv. In a terrific
manner.
Ter"ri*fy (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Terrified
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Terrifying
(?).] [L. terrere to
frighten + -fy: cf. F. terrifier, L.
terrificare. See Terrific, and
-fy.] 1. To make terrible.
[Obs.]
If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying
sin, shall give out license, it foils itself.
Milton.
2. To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.
When ye shall hear of wars . . . be not
terrified.
Luke xxi. 9.
Ter*rig"e*nous (?), a. [L.
terrigena, terrigenus; terra the
earth + genere, gignere, to bring
forth.] Earthborn; produced by the earth.
Ter`ri*to"ri*al (?), a. [L.
territorialis: cf. F. territorial.]
1. Of or pertaining to territory or land; as,
territorial limits; territorial
jurisdiction.
2. Limited to a certain district; as, right may
be personal or territorial.
3. Of or pertaining to all or any of the
Territories of the United States, or to any district similarly
organized elsewhere; as, Territorial
governments.
Ter`ri*to"ri*al*ize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Territorialized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Territorializing (?).] 1.
To enlarge by extension of territory.
2. To reduce to the condition of a territory.
Ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly, adv. In regard to
territory; by means of territory.
Ter"ri*to*red (?), a. Possessed
of territory. [R.]
Ter"ri*to*ry (?), n.; pl.
Territories (#). [L.
territorium, from terra the earth: cf. F.
territoire. See Terrace.] 1.
A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a
district.
He looked, and saw wide territory spread
Before him -- towns, and rural works between.
Milton.
2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the
dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often,
a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or
from the seat of government; as, the territory of a
State; the territories of the East India
Company.
3. In the United States, a portion of the country
not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted
as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate
legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers
appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In
Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet
formed into a Province.
Ter"ror (?), n. [L.
terror, akin to terrere to frighten, for
tersere; akin to Gr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ.
triasti to shake: cf. F. terreur. Cf.
Deter.] 1. Extreme fear; fear that
agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.
Terror seized the rebel host.
Milton.
2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme
fear.
Those enormous terrors of the Nile.
Prior.
Rulers are not a terror to good works.
Rom. xiii. 3.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
Shak.
Terror is used in the formation of
compounds which are generally self-explaining: as,
terror-fraught, terror-giving,
terror-smitten, terror-stricken,
terror-struck, and the like.
King of terrors, death. Job xviii.
14. -- Reign of Terror. (F. Hist.)
See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Syn. -- Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See
Alarm.
Ter"ror*ism (?), n. [Cf. F.
terrorisme.] The act of terrorizing, or
state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or
intimidation.
Jefferson.
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political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any
similar use of violence to achieve goals. -->
Ter"ror*ist, n. [F.
terroriste.] One who governs by terrorism
or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the
revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in
France.
Burke.
<-- 2. One who commits terrorism{2}. -->
Ter"ror*ize (?), v. t. [Cf. F.
terroriser.] To impress with terror; to
coerce by intimidation.
Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and
terrorized by ecclesiastical authority.
J. A. Symonds.
Ter"ror*less, a. Free from terror.
Poe.
Ter"ry (?), n. A kind of heavy
colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and
cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery
and trimmings.
\'d8Ter*sanc"tus (?), n. [L.
ter thrice + sanctus holy.]
(Eccl.) An ancient ascription of praise
(containing the word \'bdHoly\'b8 -- in its Latin form,
\'bdSanctus\'b8 -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass
of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of
consecration in the communion service of the Church of England
and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf.
Trisagion.
Terse (?), a.
[Compar. Terser (?);
superl. Tersest.] [L.
tersus, p.p. of tergere to rub or wipe
off.] 1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off;
rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.]
Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have
not this power attractive.
Sir T. Browne.
2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
[R. & Obs.] \'bdYour polite and terse
gallants.\'b8
Massinger.
3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words;
polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a
terse style.
Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence.
Macaulay.
A poet, too, was there, whose verse
Was tender, musical, and terse.
Longfellow.
Syn. -- Neat; concise; compact.
Terse, Concise. Terse was defined by
Johnson \'bdcleanly written\'b8, i. e., free from
blemishes, neat or smooth. Its present sense is \'bdfree from
excrescences,\'b8 and hence, compact, with smoothness,
grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of Whitehead: -
\'bdIn eight terse lines has Ph\'91drus told
(So frugal were the bards of old)
A tale of goats; and closed with grace,
Plan, moral, all, in that short space.\'b8
It differs from concise in not implying, perhaps,
quite as much condensation, but chiefly in the additional idea of
\'bdgrace or elegance.\'b8
-- Terse"ly, adv. --
Terse"ness, n.
Ter*sul"phide (?), n. [Pref.
ter- + sulphide.] (Chem.)
A trisulphide.
Ter*sul"phu*ret (?), n. [Pref.
ter- + sulphuret.] (Chem.)
A trisulphide. [R.]
Ter"-ten`ant (?), n. See
Terre-tenant.
Ter"tial (?), a. & n. [From L.
tertius third, the tertial feathers being feathers of
the third row. See Tierce.] (Zo\'94l.)
Same as Tertiary.
Ter"tian (?), a. [L.
tertianus, from tertius the third. See
Tierce.] (Med.) Occurring every
third day; as, a tertian fever.
Ter"tian, n. [L. tertiana
(sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.]
1. (Med.) A disease, especially an
intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning
inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal
to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one
third of a tun.
Ter"ti*a*ry (?), a. [L.
tertiarius containing a third part, fr.
tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire. See
Tierce.] 1. Being of the third
formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use
of a word.
Trench.
2. (Chem.) Possessing some quality in
the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of
three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol,
amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and
Secondary.
<-- specifically, an organic compound in which teh carbon atom
attached to the eponymic functional group has three carbon atoms
attached to it; as, tertiary butyl alcohol,
(CH3)3C.OH. -->
3. (Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to,
the Secondary.
4. (Zo\'94l.) Growing on the innermost
joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
Tertiary age. (Geol.) See under
Age, 8. -- Tertiary color, a color
produced by the mixture of two secondaries. \'bdThe so-called
tertiary colors are citrine, russet,
and olive.\'b8 Fairholt. -- Tertiary
period. (Geol.) (a) The first
period of the age of mammals, or of the Cenozoic era.
(b) The rock formation of that period; -- called
also Tertiary formation. See the
Chart of Geology. -- Tertiary
syphilis (Med.), the third and last stage of
syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal
organs.
Ter"ti*a*ry, n.; pl.
Tertiaries (. 1. (R.
C. Ch.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic
system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican
tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See
Third Order, under Third.
Addis & Arnold.
2. (Geol.) The Tertiary era, period, or
formation.
3. (Zo\'94l.) One of the quill feathers
which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See
Illust. of Bird.
Ter"ti*ate (?), v. t. [L.
tertiatus, p.p. of tertiare to do for the
third time, fr. tertius the third.] 1.
To do or perform for the third time. [Obs. &
R.]
Johnson.
2. (Gun.) To examine, as the thickness
of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine
the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its
strength.
\'d8Ter`u*ter"o (?), n.
[Probably so named from its city.]
(Zo\'94l.) The South American lapwing
(Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with
short spurs. Called also Cayenne
lapwing.
\'d8Ter"za ri"ma (?). [It., a third or
triple rhyme.] A peculiar and complicated system of
versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the
Troubadours.
\'d8Ter*zet"to (?), n. [It.,
dim. of terzo the third, L. tertius. See
Tierce.] (Mus.) A composition in
three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.
Tes"sel*ar (?), a. [L.
tessella a small square piece, a little cube, dim. of
tessera a square piece of stone, wood, etc., a
die.] Formed of tesser\'91, as a mosaic.
\'d8Tes`sel*la"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Tessellate.] (Zo\'94l.)
A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in
which the body is covered with tessellated plates.
Tes"sel*late (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tessellated
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tessellating.] [L.
tessellatus tessellated. See
Tessellar.] To form into squares or checkers;
to lay with checkered work.
The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after
the fashion of France.
Macaulay.
Tes"sel*late (?), a. [L.
tesselatus.] Tessellated.
Tes"sel*la`ted (?), a. 1.
Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as,
a tessellated pavement.
2. (Bot. & Zo\'94l.) Marked like a
checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.
Tes`sel*la"tion (?), n. The act
of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
J. Forsyth.
\'d8Tes"se*ra (?), n.; pl.
Tesser\'91 (#). [L., a square
piece, a die. See Tessellar.] A small piece
of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or
nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for
making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also,
a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of
admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful
gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
Fairholt.
Tes`se*ra"ic (?), a.
Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated.
[Obs.]
Sir R. Atkyns (1712).
Tes"se*ral (?), a. 1.
Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesser\'91.
2. (Crystallog.) Isometric.
Tes"su*lar (?), a.
(Crystallog.) Tesseral.
Test (?), n. [OE.
test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. t\'88t,
from L. testum an earthen vessel; akin to
testa a piece of burned clay, an earthen pot, a
potsherd, perhaps for tersta, and akin to
torrere to patch, terra earth (cf.
Thirst, and Terrace), but cf. Zend
tasta cup. Cf. Test a shell,
Testaceous, Tester a covering, a coin,
Testy, T\'88te-\'85-t\'88te.] 1.
(Metal.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which
precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Our ingots, tests, and many mo.
Chaucer.
2. Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any
critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's
assertions to a test. \'bdBring me to the
test.\'b8
Shak.
3. Means of trial; as, absence is a
test of love.
Each test every light her muse will bear.
Dryden.
4. That with which anything is compared for proof
of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Pope.
5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of
judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
Dryden.
6. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Who would excel, when few can make a test
Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Dryden.
7. (Chem.) A reaction employed to
recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent
of a compound, as the production of some characteristic
precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction;
thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the
production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by
means of some soluble barium salt.
Test act (Eng. Law), an act of the
English Parliament prescribing a form of oath and declaration
against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and
military, were formerly obliged to take within six months after
their admission to office. They were obliged also to receive the
sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England.
Blackstone. -- Test object
(Optics), an object which tests the power or
quality of a microscope or telescope, by requiring a certain
degree of excellence in the instrument to determine its existence
or its peculiar texture or markings. -- Test
paper. (a) (Chem.) Paper prepared
for use in testing for certain substances by being saturated with
a reagent which changes color in some specific way when acted
upon by those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by
acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned brown by
alkalies, etc. (b) (Law) An
instrument admitted as a standard or comparison of handwriting in
those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is permitted as
a mode of proving handwriting. -- Test tube.
(Chem.) (a) A simple tube of thin glass,
closed at one end, for heating solutions and for performing
ordinary reactions. (b) A graduated
tube.
Syn. -- Criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment;
trial. -- Test, Trial.
Trial is the wider term; test is a
searching and decisive trial. It is derived from the
Latin testa (earthen pot), which term was early
applied to the fining pot, or crucible, in
which metals are melted for trial and refinement. Hence the
peculiar force of the word, as indicating a trial or criterion of
the most decisive kind.
I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose
trial shall better publish his commediation.
Shak.
Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune,
Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace,
Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight.
Addison.
Test, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tested; p. pr. & vb. n.
Testing.] 1. (Metal.)
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to
subject to cupellation.
2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth,
genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or
standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a
principle; to test the validity of an
argument.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test
the real tendency of the existing constitution.
Washington.
3. (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the
use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by
litmus paper.
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Test (?), n. [L.
testis. Cf. Testament,
Testify.] A witness.
[Obs.]
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more
surety tests of that deed.
Ld. Berners.
Test, v. i. [L. testari. See
Testament.] To make a testament, or
will. [Obs.]
{ Test (?), \'d8Tes"ta
(?), } n.; pl. E. Tests
(#), L. Test\'91 (#). [L.
testa a piece of burned clay, a broken piece of
earthenware, a shell. See Test a cupel.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) The external hard or firm
covering of many invertebrate animals.
test of crustaceans and insects is
composed largely of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of
calcium carbonate, and is called the shell.
2. (Bot.) The outer integument of a
seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.
Test"a*ble (?), a. [See
Testament.] 1. Capable of being
tested or proved.
2. Capable of being devised, or given by
will.
\'d8Tes*ta"ce*a (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. testaceum a shelled anumal. See
Testaceous.] (Zo\'94l.)
Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially
mollusks; shellfish.
Tes*ta"cean (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Onr of the Testacea.
Tes*ta`ce*og"ra*phy (?), n.
[Testacea + -graphy: cf. F.
testac\'82ographie.] The science which
treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of
shellfish. [R.]
Tes*ta`ce*ol"o*gy (?), n.
[Testacea + -logy: cf. F.
testac\'82ologie.] The science of
testaceous mollusks; conchology. [R.]
Tes*ta"ceous (?), a. [L.
testaceus, fr. testa a shell. See
Testa.] 1. Of or pertaining to
shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell.
2. (Bot. & Zo\'94l.) Having a dull red
brick color or a brownish yellow color.
Testaceous animals (Zo\'94l.),
animals having a firm, calcareous shell, as oysters and
clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous
animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist
of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and
crabs.
Tes"ta*cy (?), n. [See
Testate.] (Law) The state or
circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or
testament, at death.
Tes"ta*ment (?), n. [F., fr. L.
testamentum, fr. testari to be a witness,
to make one's last will, akin to testis a witness. Cf.
Intestate, Testify.] 1.
(Law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing,
by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate
and effects after his death.
will, and
sometimes a last will and testament. A
testament, to be valid, must be made by a person of
sound mind; and it must be executed and published in due form of
law. A man, in certain cases, may make a valid will by word of
mouth only. See Nuncupative will, under
Nuncupative.
2. One of the two distinct revelations of God's
purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general
divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in
which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old
Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited,
in colloquial language, to the latter.
He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for
the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first
testament.
Heb. ix. 15.
Holographic testament, a testament written
wholly by the testator himself. Bouvier.
<-- also holographic will. "Written" means, in handwriting. -->
Tes`ta*men"tal (?), a. [L.
testamentalis.] Of or pertaining to a
testament; testamentary.
Thy testamental cup I take,
And thus remember thee.
J. Montgomery.
Tes`ta*men"ta*ry (?), a. [L.
testamentarius: cf. F.
testamentaire.] 1. Of or
pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters
testamentary.
2. Bequeathed by will; given by testament.
How many testamentary charities have been defeated
by the negligence or fraud of executors!
Atterbury.
3. Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament,
or will; as, a testamentary guardian of a minor, who
may be appointed by the will of a father to act in that capacity
until the child becomes of age.
Tes`ta*men*ta"tion (?), n. The
act or power of giving by testament, or will.
[R.]
Burke.
Tes"ta*men*tize (?), v. i. To
make a will. [Obs.]
Fuller.
\'d8Tes*ta"mur (?), n. [L., we
testify, fr. testari to testify.] (Eng.
Universities) A certificate of merit or proficiency;
-- so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with
which it commences.
Tes"tate (?), a. [L.
testatus, p.p. of testari. See
Testament.] (Law) Having made and
left a will; as, a person is said to die
testate.
Ayliffe.
Tes"tate, n. (Law) One who
leaves a valid will at death; a testate person.
[R.]
Tes*ta"tion (?), n. [L.
testatio.] A witnessing or witness.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.
Tes*ta"tor (?), n. [L.: cf. F.
testateur.] (Law) A man who
makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.
Tes*ta"trix (?), n. [L.]
(Law) A woman who makes and leaves a will at
death; a female testator.
Tes"te (?), n. [So called fr.
L. teste, abl. of testis a witness, because
this was formerly the initial word in the clause.]
(Law) (a) A witness. (b)
The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said
of a writ, deed, or the like.
Burrill.
Tes"ter (?), n. [OE.
testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere,
F. t\'88ti\'8are a head covering, fr. OF.
teste the head, F. t\'88te, fr. L.
testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a
cupel, and cf. Testi\'8are.] 1. A
headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.]
The shields bright, testers, and trappures.
Chaucer.
2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.
Oxf. Gross.
3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the
bedposts.
No testers to the bed, and the saddles and
portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
Walpole.
Tes"ter, n. [For testern,
teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF.
teste the head, the head of the king being impressed
upon the coin. See Tester a covering, and cf.
Testone, Testoon.] An old French
silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence,
subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence,
sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often
contracted to tizzy. Called also
teston.
Shak.
Tes"tern (?), n. A sixpence; a
tester. [Obs.]
Tes"tern, v. t. To present with a
tester. [Obs.]
Shak.
\'d8Tes"tes (?), n.,
pl. of Teste, or of
Testis.
\'d8Tes`ti*car"di*nes (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Test a shell, and Cardo.]
(Zo\'94l.) A division of brachiopods including
those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and
hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.
Tes"ti*cle (?), n. [L.
testiculus, dim. of testis a testicle,
probably the same word as testis a witness, as being a
witness to manhood. Cf. Test a witness.]
(Anat.) One of the essential male genital glands
which secrete the semen.
Tes"ti*cond (?), a. [L.
testis testis + condere to hide.]
(Zo\'94l.) Having the testicles naturally
concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.
Tes*tic"u*lar (?), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the testicle.
Tes*tic"u*late (?), a. [NL.
testiculatus.] (Bot.) (a)
Shaped like a testicle, ovate and solid. (b)
Having two tubers resembling testicles in form, as some
species of orchis.
\'d8Tes`ti*\'8are" (?), n. [OF.
testiere. See Tester a headpiece.]
A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a
tester.
Tes"tif (?), a. [See
Testy.] Testy; headstrong; obstinate.
[Obs.]
Testif they were and lusty for to play.
Chaucer.
Tes`ti*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L.
testificatio: cf. OF. testification. See
Testify.] The act of testifying, or giving
testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of
our homage to God.
South.
Tes"ti*fi*ca`tor (?), n.
[NL.] A testifier.
Tes"ti*fi`er (?), n. One who
testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove
anything; a witness.
Tes"ti*fy (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Testified
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Testifying
(?).] [OF. testifier, L.
testificari; testis a witness +
-ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy, and cf.
Attest, Contest, Detest,
Protest, Testament.] 1. To
make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some
fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to
others a knowledge of something not known to them.
Jesus . . . needed not that any should testify of
man, for he knew what was in man.
John ii. 25.
2. (Law) To make a solemn declaration
under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or
making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a
cause depending before a tribunal.
One witness shall not testify against any person to
cause him to die.
Num. xxxv. 30.
3. To declare a charge; to protest; to give
information; to bear witness; -- with against.
O Israel, . . . I will testify against thee.
Ps. l. 7.
I testified against them in the day wherein they
sold victuals.
Neh. xiii. 15.
Tes"ti*fy, v. t. 1. To bear
witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or
declare solemny.
We speak that we do know, and testify that we have
seen; and ye receive not our witness.
John iii. 11.
2. (Law) To affirm or declare under oath
or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some
fact.
Tes"ti*fy, adv. In a testy manner;
fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
Tes`ti*mo"ni*al (?), n. [Cf.
OF. testimoniale, LL. testimonialis, L.
testimoniales (sc. litter\'91). See
Testimonial, a.] 1. A
writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's
character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a
thing.
2. Something, as money or plate, presented to a
preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services
rendered.
Tes`ti*mo"ni*al, a. [L.
testimonialis: cf. F. testimonial.]
Relating to, or containing, testimony.
Tes"ti*mo*ny (?), n.; pl.
Testimonies (#). [L.
testimonium, from testis a witness: cf. OF.
testimoine, testemoine,
testimonie. See Testify.] 1.
A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of
establishing or proving some fact.
2. Affirmation; declaration; as, these
doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the
fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of
human testimony, or the testimony of
historians.
3. Open attestation; profession.
[Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne
Universal reproach.
Milton.
4. Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for
a testimony against them.
Mark vi. 11.
5. (Jewish Antiq.) The two tables of the
law.
Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I
shall give thee.
Ex. xxv. 16.
6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the
simple.
Ps. xix. 7.
Syn. -- Proof; evidence; attestation; witness; affirmation;
confirmation; averment. -- Testimony,
Proof, Evidence. Proof is the most
familiar, and is used more frequently (though not exclusively) of
facts and things which occur in the ordinary concerns of life.
Evidence is a word of more dignity, and is more
generally applied to that which is moral or intellectual; as,
the evidences of Christianity, etc.
Testimony is what is deposed to by a witness on oath
or affirmation. When used figuratively or in a wider sense, the
word testimony has still a reference to some living
agent as its author, as when we speak of the testimony
of conscience, or of doing a thing in testimony of our
affection, etc. Testimony refers rather to the thing
declared, evidence to its value or effect. \'bdTo
conform our language more to common use, we ought to divide
arguments into demonstrations, proofs, and
probabilities; ba proofs, meaning such arguments from
experience as leave no room for doubt or opposition.\'b8
Hume. \'bdThe evidence of sense is the first
and highest kind of evidence of which human nature is
capable.\'b8 Bp. Wilkins. \'bdThe proof of
everything must be by the testimony of such as the
parties produce.\'b8 Spenser.
Tes"ti*mo*ny (?), v. t. To
witness; to attest; to prove by testimony.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Tes"ti*ness (?), n. The quality
or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be
angry.
Locke.
Test"ing (?), n. 1.
The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.
2. (Metal.) The operation of refining
gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.
Testing machine (Engin.), a machine
used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron,
stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds,
as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.
\'d8Tes"tis (?), n.; pl.
Testes (#). [L.]
(Anat.) A testicle.
Tes"ton (?), n. A tester; a
sixpence. [Obs.]
Tes*tone" (?), n. [Cf. Pg.
test, tost. See
Testoon.] A silver coin of Portugal, worth
about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents.
Homans.
Tes*toon" (?), n. [It.
testone. See Tester a coin.] An
Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d.
sterling, or about thirty cents.
Homans.
Tes*tu"di*nal (?), a. [See
Testudo.] (Zo\'94l.) Of,
pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise.
Tes*tu`di*na"ri*ous (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a
tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or
markings of a tortoise shell.
\'d8Tes*tu`di*na"ta (?), n. pl.
[Nl. See Testudo.] (Zo\'94l.)
An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and
tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper
or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or
ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which
consists of several plates.
{ Tes*tu"di*nate (?),
Tes*tu"di*na`ted (?), } a.
[L. testudinatus, fr. testudo,
-inis, a tortoise, an arch or vault.]
Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure;
roofed; arched; vaulted.
Tes`tu*din"e*ous (?), a. [L.
testudineus.] Resembling the shell of a
tortoise.
\'d8Tes*tu"do (?), n.; pl.
Testudines (#). [L., from
testa the shell of shellfish, or of testaceous
animals.] 1. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of
tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse
forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such
as the European land tortoise (Testudo Gr\'91ca) and
the gopher of the Southern United States.
2. (Rom. Antiq.) A cover or screen which
a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding
them over their heads when standing close to each other. This
cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the
men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was
sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.
3. (Mus.) A kind of musical instrument.
a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of
Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a
tortoise.
Tes"ty (?), a.
[Compar. Testier (?);
superl. Testiest.] [OF.
testu obstinate, headstrong, F. t\'88tu,
fr. OF. teste the head, F. t\'88te. See
Test a cupel.] Fretful; peevish; petulant;
easily irritated.
Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch
Under your testy humor?
Shak.
I was displeased with myself; I was testy.
Latimer.
Te*tan"ic (?), a. [Cf. L.
tetanicus suffering from tetanus, Gr. t\'82tanique.] 1. (Physiol.)
Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of
tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic
contraction.
This condition of muscle, this fusion of a number of simple
spasms into an apparently smooth, continuous effort, is known as
tetanus, or tetanic contraction.
Foster.
2. (Physiol. & Med.) Producing, or
tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles;
as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic,
n.
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Te*tan"ic (?), n. (Physiol. &
Med.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and
brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on
the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large
quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.
Tet"a*nin (?), n. (Physiol.
Chem.) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat
broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of
a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it
produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.
<-- ?? not in Merck -- tetanospasmin? The neurotoxin of
Clostridium tetani. -->
Tet`a*ni*za"tion (?), n.
(Physiol.) The production or condition of
tetanus.
Tet"a*nize (?), v. t.
(Physiol.) To throw, as a muscle, into a state of
permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus,
n., 2.
Tet"a*noid (?), a.
[Tetanus + -oid.] (Med. &
Physiol.) Resembling tetanus.
Tet`a*no*mo"tor (?), n.
(Physiol.) An instrument from tetanizing a muscle
by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
\'d8Tet"a*nus (?), n. [L., fr.
Gr. 1.
(Med.) A painful and usually fatal disease,
resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal
symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the
muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called
locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and
it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body
resulting from the spasm.<-- caused by the anaerobic
bacterium Clostridium tetani. -->
2. (Physiol.) That condition of a muscle
in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as
when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.
Tet"a*ny (?), n. (Med.)
A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished
from it by being less severe and having intermittent
spasms.
Te*tard" (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A gobioid fish (Eleotris
gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also
sleeper.
Te*tar`to*he"dral (?), a. [Gr.
(Crystallog.)
Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite
to complete symmetry. --
Te*tar`to*he"dral*ly,
adv.
Te*tar`to*he"drism (?), n.
(Crystallog.) The property of being
tetartohedral.
Te*taug" (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) See Tautog.
[R.]
Tetch"i*ness, n. See
Techiness.
Tetch"y (?), a. See
Techy.
Shak.
\'d8T\'88te (?), n. [F., the
head. See Tester a covering.] A kind of wig;
false hair.
\'d8T\'88te`-\'85-t\'88te" (?), n.
[F., head to head. See Tester a covering,
Test a cupel.] 1. Private
conversation; familiar interview or conference of two
persons.
2. A short sofa intended to accomodate two
persons.
\'d8T\'88te`-\'85-t\'88te", a. Private;
confidential; familiar.
She avoided t\'88te-\'85-t\'88te walks with
him.
C. Kingsley.
\'d8T\'88te`-\'85-t\'88te", adv. Face to
face; privately or confidentially; familiarly.
Prior.
\'d8T\'88te`-de-pont" (?), n.;
pl. T\'88tes-de-pont (#).
[F., head of a bridge.] (Mil.) A work
thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering
the communications across a river; a bridgehead.
Te*tel" (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A large African antelope
(Alcejaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly
ringed horns.
Teth"er (?), n. [Formerly
tedder, OE. tedir; akin to LG.
tider, tier, Icel. tj\'d3,
Dan. t\'94ir. \'fb64.] A long rope or chain
by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can
range or feed only within certain limits.
Teth"er, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tethered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tethering.] To confine, as an
animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain
limits.
And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone.
Wordsworth.
Te*thy"dan (?), n. [See
Tethys.] (Zo\'94l.) A
tunicate.
\'d8Te`thy*o"de*a (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Tethys + Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A division of Tunicata including the
common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also
Tethioidea.
Te"thys (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A genus of a large naked mollusks
having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched
dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are
brilliantly colored.
Tet"ra- (?). [Gr. Four.] 1. A combining form
or prefix signifying four, as in
tetrabasic, tetrapetalous.
2. (Chem.) A combining form (also used
adjectively) denoting four proportional or
combining parts of the substance or ingredient denoted
by the term to which it is prefixed, as in
tetra-chloride, tetroxide.
Tet`ra*bas"ic (?), a.
[Tetra- + basic.]
(Chem.) Capable of neutralizing four molecules of
a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement
by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal
silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a
tetrabasic acid.
Tet`ra*bor"ic (?), a.
[Tetra- + boric.]
(Chem.) Same as Pyroboric.
\'d8Tet`ra*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Tetra-, and Branchia.]
(Zo\'94l.) An order of Cephalopoda having four
gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus.
Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such
as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.
Tet`ra*bran`chi*ate (?), a.
[Tetra + branchiate.]
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
Tetrabranchiata. -- n. One of the
Tetrabranchiata.
Tet`ra*car"pel (?), a.
[Tetra- + carpellary.]
(Bot.) Composed of four carpels.
Tet"ra*chord (?), n. [L.
tetrachordon, Gr. Tetra-) + t\'82trachorde.] (Anc. Mus.) A
scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and
last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the
two middle sounds were changeable.
Tet`ra*chot"o*mous (?), a. [Gr.
(Bot.)
Having a division by fours; separated into four parts or
series, or into series of fours.
Tet*rac"id (?), a.
[Tetra + acid.]
(Chem.) Capable of neutralizing four molecules of
a monobasic acid; having four hydrogen atoms capable of
replacement ba acids or acid atoms; -- said of certain bases;
thus, erythrine, C4H6(OH)4, is a
tetracid alcohol.
Tet`ra*coc"cous (?), a. [See
Tetra-, and Coccus.] (Bot.)
Having four cocci, or carpels.
Tet`ra*co"lon (?), n. [Gr. Tetra-) + (Pros.) A stanza or division in
lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines.
Crabb.
\'d8Te`tra*co*ral"la (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Tetra-, and Corallum.]
(Paleon.) Same as Rugosa.
Te*trac`ti*nel"lid (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any species of sponge of the division
Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.
\'d8Te*trac`ti*nel"li*da (?), n. pl.
[NL., from Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A division of Spongi\'91 in which the
spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right
angles. Called also Tetractinellin\'91.
Tet"rad (?), n. [L.
tetras, -adis, Gr. t\'82trade.] 1. The number four; a
collection of four things; a quaternion.
2. (Chem.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent
atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.
{ Tet`ra*dac"tyl, Tet`ra*dac"tyle }
(?), a. [Cf. F.
t\'82tradactyle.] (Zo\'94l.)
Tetradactylous.
Tet`ra*dac"tyl*ous (?), a. [Gr.
Tetra-) +
(Zo\'94l.) Having, or characterized by, four
digits to the foot or hand.
Tet`ra*dec"ane (?), n.
[Tetra- + Gr. (Chem.)
A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the
marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in
the molecule.
\'d8Tet`ra*de*cap"o*da (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Tetra-, and Decapoda.]
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Arthrostraca.
Tet*rad"ic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing
or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a
tetradic element.
Tet"ra*dite (?), n. [See
Tetrad.] A person in some way remarkable with
regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth
day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons
in the Godhead.
Smart.
Tet"ra*don (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) See Tetrodon.
Tet"ra*dont (?), a. & n.
(Zo\'94l.) See Tetrodont.
{ Tet"ra*drachm (?),
\'d8Tet`ra*drach"ma (?), } n.
[NL. tetradrachma, fr. Gr. Tetra-) + A silver coin
among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms. The Attic
tetradrachm was equal to 3s. 3d. sterling, or about 76
cents.
Tet*rad"y*mite (?), n. [Gr. (Min.) A telluride of
bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster,
and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric
bismuth.
\'d8Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*a (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) +
(Bot.) A Linn\'91an class of plants having six
stamens, four of which are longer than the others.
Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*an (?), n.
(Bot.) A plant of the order Tetradynamia.
{ Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*an (?),
Tet`ra*dyn"a*mous (?), } a.
(Bot.) Belonging to the order Tetradynamia;
having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the
others.
Tet"ra*gon (?), n. [L.
tetragonum, Gr. Tetra-) + t\'82tragone.] 1.
(Geom.) A plane figure having four sides and
angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.
2. (Astrol.) An aspect of two planets
with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other
ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.
Hutton.
Te*trag"o*nal (?), a. 1.
(Geom.) Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having
four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the
rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal
fingers.
2. (Bot.) Having four prominent
longitudinal angles.
3. (Crystallog.) Designating, or
belonging to, a certain system of crystallization; dimetric. See
Tetragonal system, under
Crystallization.
\'d8Tet`ra*gram"ma*ton (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) + The mystic number four, which was often
symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by
four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew
JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus,
etc.
\'d8Tet`ra*gyn"i*a (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. te`tra- (see Tetra-) +
gynh` a woman, female.] (Bot.) A
Linn\'91an order of plants having four styles.
{ Tet`ra*gyn"i*an (?),
Te*trag"y*nous (?), } a.
(Bot.) Belonging to the order Tetragynia; having
four styles.
Tet`ra*he"dral (?), a. [See
Tetrahedron.] 1. Having, or composed
of, four sides.
2. (Crystallog.) (a) Having the
form of the regular tetrahedron. (b)
Pertaining or related to a tetrahedron, or to the system of
hemihedral forms to which the tetrahedron belongs.
Tetrahedral angle (Geom.), a solid
angle bounded or inclosed by four plane angles.
Tet`ra*he"dral*ly, adv. In a tetrahedral
manner.
Tet`ra*he"drite (?), n. [So
called because the crystals of the species are commonly
tetrahedrons.] (Min.) A sulphide
of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It
is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a
considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray
copper ore, fahlore, and
panabase.
Tet`ra*he"dron (?), n.
[Tetra- + Gr. (Geom.) A solid figure inclosed or
bounded by four triangles.
Regular tetrahedron (Geom.), a
solid bounded by four equal equilateral triangles; one of the
five regular solids.
Tet`ra*hex`a*he"dral (?), a.
(Crystallog.) Pertaining to a
tetrahexahedron.
Tet`ra*hex`a*he"dron (?), n.
[Tetra- + hexahedron.]
(Crystallog.) A solid in the isometric system,
bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding
to each face of the cube.
Tet`ra*kis*hex`a*he"dron (?), n.
[Gr. hexahedron.]
(Crystallog.) A tetrahexahedron.
Tet"ra*ko*sane` (?), n.
[Tetra- + Gr.
(Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C24H50,
resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas
series; -- so called from having twenty-four atoms of
carbon in the molecule.
Te*tral"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. Tetra-) + t\'82tralogie.] (Gr. Drama) A
group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one
satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies),
represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac
festival.
trilogy.
\'d8Te*tram"e*ra (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Tetramerous.] (Zo\'94l.)
A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four
tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary.
Te*tram"er*ous (?), a.
[Tetra- + Gr. 1.
(Bot.) Having the parts arranged in sets of four;
as, a tetramerous flower.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Having four joints in each
of the tarsi; -- said of certain insects.
Te*tram"e*ter (?), n. [L.
tetrametrus, Gr. Tetra-) + t\'82tram\'8atre.] (GR. &
Latin Pros.) A verse or line consisting of four
measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of
eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
Tet`ra*meth"yl*ene (?), n.
[Tetra- + methylene.]
(Chem.) (a) A hypothetical hydrocarbon,
C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as
the base of well-known series or derivatives. (b)
Sometimes, an isomeric radical used to designate certain
compounds which are really related to butylene.
Tet"ra*morph (?), n.
[Tetra- + Gr. (Christian Art) The union of the
four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is
represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the
wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are
evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)
\'d8Te*tran"dri*a (?), n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. Tetra-) + (Bot.) A Linn\'91an class of plants
having four stamens.
{ Te*tran"dri*an (?),
Te*tran"drous (?), } a.
(Bot.) Belonging to the class Tetrandria.
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Te*tra"o*nid (?), n. [L.
tetrao a heath cock, grouse, Gr. t\'82traonide.] (Zo\'94l.) A
bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao
is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used
also adjectively.
Tet`ra*pet"al*ous (?), a.
[Tetra- + petal.]
(Bot.) Containing four distinct petals, or flower
leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.
{ Tet`ra*phar"ma*com (?),
Tet`ra*phar"ma*cum (?) }, n.
[NL. tetrapharmacon, L.
tetrapharmacum, Gr. Tetra-) +
(Med.) A combination of wax,
resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment.
Brande & C.
Tet`ra*phe"nol (?), n.
[Tetra- + phenol.]
(Chem.) Furfuran. [Obs.]
Te*traph"yl*lous (?), a.
[Tetra- + Gr.
(Bot.)Having four leaves; consisting of four
distinct leaves or leaflets.
\'d8Tet"ra*pla (?), n.;
etymologically pl., but syntactically
sing. [NL., fr. Gr.
tetraplo`os, tetraploy^s, fourfold.]
A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged
in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages
or four columns.
\'d8Tet`ra*neu"mo*na (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Tetra-, and Pneumo-.]
(Zo\'94l.) A division of Arachnida including
those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It
includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See
Mygale.
Tet`rap*nue*mo"ni*an (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) One of the Tetrapneumona.
Tet"ra*pod (?), n. [Gr. Tetra-) +
(Zo\'94l.) An insect characterized by having but
four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.
Te*trap"o*dy (?), n. [Gr.
A set of four feet; a measure or distance of
four feet.
Te*trap"ter*an (?), n. [See
Tetrapterous.] (Zo\'94l.) An
insect having four wings.
Te*trap"ter*ous (?), a. [Gr.
Tetra-) +
(Zo\'94l.) Having four wings.
Tet"rap*tote (?), n. [L.
tetraptotum, Gr. (Gram.) A
noun that has four cases only.
Andrews.
Te"trarch (?), n. [L.
tetrarches, Gr. Tetra-) +
t\'82trarque.
See Arch, a.] (Rom. Antiq.)
A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence,
any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or
sovereign.
Te"trarch, a. Four.
[Obs.]
Fuller.
Te*trarch"ate (?), n. [Cf. F.
t\'82trarchat.] (Rom. Antiq.) A
tetrarchy.
Te*trarch"ic*al (?), a. [Gr.
Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or
tetrarchy.
Bolingbroke.
Tet"rarch*y (?), n.; pl.
Tetrarchies (#). [L.
tetrarchia, Gr. t\'82trarchie.] (Rom. Antiq.)
The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or
jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.
Tet`ra*schis"tic (?), a. [Gr.
(Biol.) Characterized by division into four
parts.
Tet`ra*sep"al*ous (?), a.
[Tetra- + sepal.]
(Bot.) Having four sepals.
Tet`ra*spas"ton (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr. Tetra-) +
(Mach.) A machine in which four pulleys act
together.
Brande & C.
Tet`ra*sper"mous (?), a.
[Tetra- + Gr.
(Bot.) Having four seeds.
Tetraspermous plant, a plant which produces
four seeds in each flower.
Tet"ra*spore (?), n.
[Tetra- + spore.]
(Bot.) A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four
regularly occurring in red seaweeds. --
Tet`ra*spor"ic (#),
a.
Te*tras"tich (?), n. [L.
tetrastichon, Gr. Tetra-) + A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting
of four verses or lines.
Pope.
Tet"ra*style (?), a. [L.
tetrastylon, Gr. Tetra-) + (Arch.)
Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico,
or colonnade. -- n. A tetrastyle
building.
{ Tet`ra*syl*lab"ic (?),
Tet`ra*syl*lab"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. t\'82trasyllabique.]
Consisting of, or having, four syllables;
quadrisyllabic.
Ter"ra*syl`la*ble (?), n.
[Tetra- + syllable: cf. Gr. A word consisting of four syllables;
a quadrisyllable.
Tet`ra*the"cal (?), a.
[Tetra- + thecal.]
(Bot.) Having four loculaments, or
thec\'91.
Tet`ra*thi"on*ate (?), n.
(Chem.) A salt of tetrathionic acid.
Tet`ra*thi*on"ic (?), a.
[Tetra- + thionic.]
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a
thionic derivative, H
Tet`ra*tom"ic (?), a.
[Tetra- + atomic.]
(Chem.) (a) Consisting of four atoms;
having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and
arsenic. (b) Having a valence of four;
quadrivalent; tetravalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having
four hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic.
Te*trav"a*lence (?), n.
(Chem.) The quality or state of being
tetravalent; quadrivalence.
Te*trav"a*lent (?), a.
[Tetra- + L. valens,
-entis, p.pr.] (Chem.) Having a
valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.
Te*trax"ile (?), a.
[Tetra- + axile.]
(Zo\'94l.) Having four branches diverging at
right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.
Tet*raz"o- (?), a.
[Tetra- + azo\'cf.]
(Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively),
designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo
and diazo compounds containing four atoms of
nitrogen.
Tet"ra*zone (?), n.
(Chem.) Any one of a certain series of basic
compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for
example, ethyl tetrazone,
(C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having
an odor of leeks.
{ Tet"ric (?), Tet"ri*cal
(?), } a. [L. tetricus,
taetricus, from teter, taeter, offensive,
foul.] Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.
[Obs.] -- Tet"ric*al*ness,
n.
Te*tric"i*ty (?), n. [L.
tetricitas, taetricitas.]
Crabbedness; perverseness. [Obs.]
Tet"ric*ous (?), a.
Tetric. [Obs.]
Te*trin"ic (?), a. [See
Tetra-.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining
to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid,
C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline
substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a
peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also
acetyl-acrylic acid.
Tet"ro*don (?), n.
[Tetra- + Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of
plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied
genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike,
bony teeth. [Written also
tetradon.]
(a), and similar species.
Tet"ro*dont (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
tetrodons. -- n. A
tetrodon. [Written also tetradont,
and tetraodont.]
Tet"rol (?), n.
[Tetra- + benzol.]
(Chem.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon,
C4H4, analogous to benzene; -- so called from
the four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetrol phenol, furfuran.
[Obs.]
Tet*rol"ic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an
acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series,
homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline
substance.
Tet*rox"ide (?), n.
[Tetra\'cf + oxide.]
(Chem.) An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in
the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide,
OsO.
Tet"ryl (?), n.
[Tetra\'cf + -yl.]
(Chem.) Butyl; -- so called from the
four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tet"ryl*ene (?), n.
[Tetra\'cf + ethylene.]
(Chem.) Butylene; -- so called from the
four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tet"ter (?), n. [OE.
teter, AS. teter, tetr; akin to
G. zitter, zittermal, OHG.
zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka,
a sort of skin disease. \'fb63, 240.] (Med.)
A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See
Herpes.
Honeycomb tetter (Med.),
favus. -- Moist tetter (Med.),
eczema. -- Scaly tetter (Med.),
psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.),
the white bryony.
Tet"ter, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tettered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tettering.] To affect with
tetter.
Shak.
Tet"ter*ous (?), a. Having the
character of, or pertaining to, tetter.
Tet"ter-tot`ter (?), n. [See
Teeter.] A certain game of children; seesaw;
-- called also titter-totter, and
titter-cum-totter.
Tet"ter*wort` (?), n.
(Bot.) A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in
England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.
Tet`ti*go"ni*an (?), n. [Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of
Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a
leaf hopper.
Tet"tish (?), a. [Cf.
Testy.] Captious; testy.
[Written also teatish.]
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
\'d8Tet"tix (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. 1.
(Zo\'94l.) The cicada. [Obs. or
R.]
2. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of small
grasshoppers.
Tet"ty (?), a. Testy;
irritable. [Obs.]
Burton.
Teu"fit (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The lapwing; -- called also
teuchit. [Prov. Eng.]
Teuk (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
The redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
Teu"ton (?), n.; pl. E.
Teutons (#), L. Teutones
(#). [L. Teutones,
Teutoni, the name of a Germanic people, probably akin
to E. Dutch. Cf. Dutch.] 1.
One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any
member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a
German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt
or one of a Latin race.
2. A member of the Teutonic branch of the
Indo-European, or Aryan, family.
Teu*ton"ic (?), a. [L.
Teutonicus, from Teutoni, or
Teutones. See Teuton.] 1.
Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons;
Germanic.
2. Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic
languages, or the peoples who speak these languages.
Teutonic languages, a group of languages
forming a division of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family, and
embracing the High German, Low German, Gothic, and Scandinavian
dialects and languages. -- Teutonic order, a
military religious order of knights, established toward the close
of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and
Hospitalers, and composed chiefly of Teutons, or Germans. The
order rapidly increased in numbers and strength till it became
master of all Prussia, Livonia, and Pomerania. In its decay it
was abolished by Napoleon; but it has been revived as an honorary
order.
Teu*ton"ic (?), n. The language
of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages,
collectively.
Teu*ton"i*cism (?), n. A mode
of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or
expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.
Tew (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Tewed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tewing.] [OE.
tewen, tawen. \'fb64. See Taw,
v.] 1. To prepare by beating or
working, as leather or hemp; to taw.
2. Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about;
to maul; to tease; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
Tew, v. i. To work hard; to strive; to
fuse. [Local]
Tew, v. t. [Cf. Taw to tow,
Tow, v. t.] To tow along, as a
vessel. [Obs.]
Drayton.
Tew, n. A rope or chain for towing a
boat; also, a cord; a string. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.]
Te"wan (?), n. (Ethnol.)
A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of
New Mexico and adjacent regions.
Tewed (?), a. Fatigued; worn
with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local]
Mir. for Mag.
Tew"el (?), n. [OE.
tuel, OF. tuiel, tuel, F.
tuyau; of Teutonic origin; cf. Dan. tud, D.
tuit, Prov. G. zaute. Cf.
Tuy\'8are.] 1. A pipe, funnel, or
chimney, as for smoke.
Chaucer.
2. The tuy\'8are of a furnace.
Te"whit (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The lapwing; -- called also
teewheep. [Prov. Eng.]
Tew"taw (?), v. t. [See
Tew, v. t.] To beat; to break, as
flax or hemp. [Obs.]
Mortimer.
Tex"as (?), n. A structure on
the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house,
officers' cabins, etc. [Western U.S.]
Knight.
Text (?), n. [F.
texte, L. textus, texture, structure,
context, fr. texere, textum, to weave,
construct, compose; cf. Gr. taksh
to cut, carve, make. Cf. Context, Mantle,
n., Pretext, Tissue, Toil a
snare.] 1. A discourse or composition on
which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an
author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or
commentary.
Chaucer.
2. (O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by
way of distinction or eminence. [R.]
3. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one
chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a
doctrine.
How oft, when Paul has served us with a text,
Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached!
Cowper.
4. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an
argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
5. A style of writing in large characters;
text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German
text.
<-- 6. That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising
the words, especially the main body of expository words, in
contrast to the illustrations, pictures, charts, tables, or other
formatted material which contain graphic elements as a major
component.
7. Any communication composed of words.
8. A textbook. -->
Text blindness. (Physiol.) See
Word blindness, under Word. --
Text letter, a large or capital letter.
[Obs.] -- Text pen, a kind of
metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing
text-hand.
Text, v. t. To write in large
characters, as in text hand. [Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
Text"-book` (?), n. 1.
A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for
notes.
2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which
a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction;
a schoolbook.
Text"-hand` (?), n. A large
hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to
write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a
smaller hand.
Tex"tile (?), a. [L.
textilis, fr. texere to weave: cf. F.
textile. See Text.] Pertaining to
weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts;
woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as,
textile fabrics.
Textile cone (Zo\'94l.), a
beautiful cone shell (Conus textilis) in which the
colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of
cloth.
Tex"tile, n. That which is, or may be,
woven; a fabric made by weaving.
Bacon.
Text"man (?), n.; pl.
Textmen (. One ready in
quoting texts. [R.]
Bp. Sanderston.
Tex*to"ri*al (?), a. [L.
textorius, fr. textor a weaver, fr.
texere, textum, to weave.] Of or
pertaining to weaving.
T. Warton.
Tex"trine (?), a. [L.
textrinus, for textorinus, fr.
textor a weaver.] Of or pertaining to
weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art.
Denham.
Tex"tu*al (?), a. [OE.
textuel, F. textuel.] 1.
Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as,
textual criticism; a textual
reading.
Milton.
2. Serving for, or depending on, texts.
Bp. Hall.
3. Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite
them accurately. \'bdI am not textuel.\'b8
Chaucer.
Tex"tu*al*ist, n. A textman; a
textuary.
Lightfoot.
Tex"tu*al*ly, adv. In a textual manner;
in the text or body of a work; in accordance with the text.
Tex"tu*a*rist (?), n. A
textuary. [R.]
Tex"tu*a*ry (?), a. [Cf. F.
textuaire.] 1. Contained in the
text; textual.
Sir T. Browne.
2. Serving as a text; authoritative.
Glanvill.
Tex"tu*a*ry, n. [Cf. F.
textuaire.] 1. One who is well
versed in the Scriptures; a textman.
Bp. Bull.
2. One who adheres strictly or rigidly to the
text.
Tex"tu*el (?), a.
Textual. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Tex"tu*ist, n. A textualist; a
textman. [Obs.]
The crabbed textualists of his time.
Milton.
Tex"tur*al (?), a. Of or
pertaining to texture.
Tex"ture (?), n. [L.
textura, fr. texere, textum, to
weave: cf. F. texture. See Text.]
1. The act or art of weaving.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.
2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
Milton.
Others, apart far in the grassy dale,
Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
Thomson.
3. The disposition or connection of threads,
filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the
texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
4. The disposition of the several parts of any body
in connection with each other, or the manner in which the
constituent parts are united; structure; as, the
texture of earthy substances or minerals; the
texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of
paper; a loose or compact texture.
5. (Biol.) A tissue. See
Tissue.
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Tex"ture (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Textured
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Texturing.] To form a texture of or
with; to interweave. [R.]
Tex"tur*y (?), n. The art or
process of weaving; texture. [Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Teyne (?), n. [See
Tain.] A thin plate of metal.
[Obs.] \'bdA teyne of silver.\'b8
Chaucer.
Th. In Old English, the article the,
when the following word began with a vowel, was often written
with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms
thabsence, tharray, thegle,
thend, thingot, etc., are found for
the absence, the array, the
eagle, the end, etc.
{ Thack (?), Thack"er
(?) }. See Thatch,
Thatcher. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
Thak (?), v. t. To
thwack. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
\'d8Thal`a*men*ceph"a*lon (?), n.
[NL. See Thalamus, and Encephalon.]
(Anat.) The segment of the brain next in front of
the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary
body; the diencephalon; the interbrain.
Tha*lam"ic (?), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to
thalami.
{ Thal`a*mi*flo"ral (?),
Thal`a*mi*flo"rous (?), } a.
[See Thalamus, and Floral.]
(Bot.) Bearing the stamens directly on the
receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous
plants in the system of De Candolle.
Thal"a*mo*c\'d2le` (?), n.
[Thalamic + Cg.
(Anat.) The cavity or ventricle of the
thalamencephalon; the third ventricle.
\'d8Thal`a*moph"o*ra (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Foraminifera.
\'d8Thal"a*mus (?), n.; pl.
Thalami (#). [L.
thalamus chamber, Gr. 1.
(Anat.) A mass of nervous matter on either side
of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also
optic thalamus.
2. (Bot.) (a) Same as
Thallus. (b) The receptacle of a
flower; a torus.
Tha*las"si*an (?), n. [From Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Any sea
tortoise.
Tha*las"sic (?), a. [Gr. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the
sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments
deposited upon the sea bottom.
Thal`as*sin"i*an (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any species of
Thalaassinid\'91, a family of burrowing macrurous
Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.
Thal`as*sog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr.
-graphy.] The study or science of
the life of marine organisms.
Agassiz.
\'d8Tha"ler (?), n. [G. See
Dollar.] A German silver coin worth about
three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.
Tha*li"a (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
(Class. Myth.) (a)
That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.
(b) One of the three Graces. (c)
One of the Nereids.
\'d8Tha`li*a"ce*a (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Thalia.] (Zo\'94l.)
A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species,
such as Salpa and Doliolum.
Tha*li"an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining to comedy;
comic.
Thal"late (?), n. (Chem.)
A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
Thal"lene (?), n. (Chem.)
A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and
remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.
Thal"lic (?), a. (Chem.)
Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing,
thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the
element has a higher valence as contrasted with the
thallous compounds; as, thallic
oxide.
Thal"line (?), a. (Bot.)
Consisting of a thallus.
Thal"line (?), n. [Gr. (Chem.) An
artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white
crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are
valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green
color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.
Thal"li*ous (?), a.
(Chem.) See Thallous.
Thal"li*um (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. green line in its
spectrum.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element
of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain
pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture
of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white
metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping
under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.
Thal"lo*gen (?), n. [Gr. -gen.]
(Bot.) One of a large class or division of the
vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such
as fungi, alg\'91, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only,
composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even
of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem,
and leaf.
Thal"loid (?), a.
[Thallus + -oid.]
(Bot.) Resembling, or consisting of,
thallus.
Thal"lo*phyte (?), n. [Gr. (Bot.) Same as
Thallogen.
Thal"lous (?), a. (Chem.)
Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing,
thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the
element has a lower valence as contrasted with the
thallic compounds. [Written also
thallious.]
\'d8Thal"lus (?), n.; pl.
Thalli (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.) A
solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers,
usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes
erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the
substance of the thallogens.
{ Tham"muz (?), Tam"muz
(?), } n. [Heb.
thamm\'d4z.] 1. A deity among the
ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an
annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the
same with the Ph\'d2nician Adon, or Adonis.
Milton.
2. The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical
year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of
July.
Tham"no*phile (?), n. [Gr.
qa`mnos a bush + fi`los loving.]
(Zo\'94l.) A bush shrike.
\'d8Tha"myn (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) An Asiatic deer (Rucervus
Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; -- called also
Eld's deer.
Than (?), conj. [OE.
than, thon, then,
thanne, thonne, thenne, than,
then, AS. \'ebanne, \'ebonne,
\'eb\'91nne; akin to D. dan, OHG.
danne, G. dann then, denn than,
for, Goth. \'edan then, and to E. the,
there, that. See That, and cf.
Then.] A particle expressing comparison, used
after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or
diversity, as more, better,
other, otherwise, and the like. It is
usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case.
Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the
objective case, and than is then considered by some
grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed
in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I
would rather suffer than that you should
want.
Behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Matt. xii. 42.
Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom,
Satan except, none higher sat.
Milton.
It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce;
It's fitter being sane than mad.
R. Browning.
Than, adv. Then. See
Then. [Obs.]
Gower.
Thanne longen folk to gon on pilgrimages.
Chaucer.
Than"age (?), n. The district
in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.
Than"a*toid (?), a. [Gr. -oid.] Deathlike; resembling
death.
Dunglison.
Than`a*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr.
-logy.] A description, or the
doctrine, of death.
Dunglison.
Than`a*top"sis (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr. A view of death; a
meditation on the subject of death.
Bryant.
Thane (?), n. [OE.
thein, \'edein, AS. \'edegen,
\'edegn; akin to OHG. degan a follower,
warrior, boy, MHG. degen a hero, G. degen
hero, soldier, Icel. \'edegn a thane, a freeman;
probably akin to Gr. \'edius servant, AS. \'ede\'a2n,
G. dienen to serve.] A dignitary under the
Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two
orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts
and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who
were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within
their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and
baron took its place.
thane was a
title of honor, which seems gradually to have declined in its
significance.
Jamieson.
Thane"dom (?), n. The property
or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage.
Sir W. Scott.
Thane"hood (?), n. The
character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes,
collectively.
J. R. Green.
Thane"ship, n. The state or dignity of a
thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.
Thank (?), n.; pl.
Thanks (#). [AS.
\'edanc, \'edonc, thanks, favor, thought;
akin to OS. thank favor, pleasure, thanks, D. & G.
dank thanks, Icel. \'ed\'94kk, Dan.
tak, Sw. tack, Goth. \'edagks
thanks; -- originally, a thought, a thinking. See
Think.] A expression of gratitude; an
acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness
received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now
generally used in the plural. \'bdThis ceremonial
thanks.\'b8
Massinger.
If ye do good to them which do good to you, what
thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
Luke vi. 33.
What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise
and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge
to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of
sin?
Milton.
Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy
friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught.
Longfellow.
His thanks, Her thanks,
etc., of his or her own accord; with his or her good
will; voluntary. [Obs.]
Full sooth is said that love ne lordship,
Will not, his thanks, have no fellowship.
Chaucer.
-- In thank, with thanks or thankfulness.
[Obs.] -- Thank offering, an offering
made as an expression of thanks.
Thank (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Thanked
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thanking.] [AS. \'edancian.
See Thank, n.] To express
gratitude to (anyone) for a favor; to make acknowledgments to
(anyone) for kindness bestowed; -- used also ironically for
blame.
\'bdGraunt mercy, lord, that thank I you,\'b8 quod
she.
Chaucer.
I thank thee for thine honest care.
Shak.
Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss,
And thank yourself if aught should fall amiss.
Dryden.
Thank"ful (?), a. [AS.
\'edancfull.] 1. Obtaining or
deserving thanks; thankworthy. [R.]
Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass
That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well
That washes what it shows.
Herbert.
2. Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and
ready to acknowledge it; grateful.
Be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Ps. c. 4.
-- Thank"ful*ly, adv. --
Thank"ful*ness, n.
Thank"less, a. 1. Not
acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful;
ungrateful.
That she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
Shak.
2. Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable;
as, a thankless task.
To shepherd thankless, but by thieves that love the
night allowed.
Chapman.
-- Thank"less*ly (#),
adv. -- Thank"less*ness,
n.
Thank"ly, adv. Thankfully.
[Obs.]
Sylvester (Du Bartas).
Thanks"give (?), v. t. To give
or dedicate in token of thanks. [Obs. or R.]
Mede.
Thanks"giv`er (?), n. One who
gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness.
Barrow.
Thanks"giv`ing (?), n. 1.
The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for
favors or mercies.
Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if
it be received with thanksgiving.
1 Tim. iv. 4.
In the thanksgiving before meat.
Shak.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs
Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.
Keble.
2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine
goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially
to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable
deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary
dispensation of his bounties.
Thank"wor`thi*ness (?), n. The
quality or state of being thankworthy.
Thank"wor`thy (?), a. Deserving
thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious.
For this thankworthy, if a man, for conscience
toward God, endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
1 Pet. ii. 19.
Thar (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the
Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly
backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male
is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also
serow, and imo.
[Written also thaar, and
tahr.]
Thar, v. impersonal, pres. [OE.
thar, \'edarf, AS. \'edearf,
infin. \'edurfan to need; akin to OHG.
durfan, G. d\'81rfen to be allowed, Icel.
\'edurfa to need, Goth.
\'eda\'a3rban.] It needs; need.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
What thar thee reck or care?
Chaucer.
Tharms (?), n. pl. [AS.
\'edearm a gut; akin to D. & G. darm, Icel.
\'edarmr, Sw. & Dan. tarm. \'fb53.]
Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Ascham.
Tha"ros (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A small American butterfly
(Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the
wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black
with small white crescents; -- called also pearl
crescent.
That (?), pron., a., conj., & adv.
[AS. \'eb\'91t, neuter nom. & acc. sing. of the
article (originally a demonstrative pronoun). The nom. masc.
s\'c7, and the nom. fem. se\'a2 are from a
different root. AS. \'eb\'91t is akin to D.
dat, G. das, OHG. daz, Sw. &
Dan. det, Icel. \'edat (masc.
s\'be, fem. s\'d3), Goth.
\'edata (masc. sa, fem. s\'d3),
Gr. tat (for
tad, masc. sas, fem. s\'be); cf.
L. istud that. \'fb184. Cf. The,
Their, They, Them, This,
Than, Since.] 1. As a
demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those),
that usually points out, or refers to, a person or
thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood.
That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to
which it refers; as, that which he has said is true;
those in the basket are good apples.
The early fame of Gratian was equal to that of the
most celebrated princes.
Gibbon.
That may refer to an entire sentence or
paragraph, and not merely to a word. It usually follows, but
sometimes precedes, the sentence referred to.
That be far from thee, to do after this manner, to
slay the righteous with the wicked.
Gen. xviii. 25.
And when Moses heard that, he was content.
Lev. x. 20.
I will know your business, Harry, that I will.
Shak.
That is often used in opposition to
this, or by way of distinction, and in such cases
this, like the Latin hic and French
ceci, generally refers to that which is nearer, and
that, like Latin ille and French
cela, to that which is more remote. When they refer to
foreign words or phrases, this generally refers to the
latter, and that to the former.
Two principles in human nature reign;
Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain;
Nor this a good, nor that a bad we
call.
Pope.
If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or
that.
James iv. 16.
2. As an adjective, that has the same
demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a
noun.
It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day
of judgment, than for that city.
Matt. x. 15.
The woman was made whole from that hour.
Matt. ix. 22.
That was formerly sometimes used with the
force of the article the, especially in the phrases
that one, that other, which were
subsequently corrupted into th'tone,
th'tother (now written t'other).
Upon a day out riden knightes two . . .
That one of them came home, that other
not.
Chaucer.
3. As a relative pronoun, that is
equivalent to who or which, serving to
point out, and make definite, a person or thing spoken of, or
alluded to, before, and may be either singular or plural.
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself
shame.
Prov. ix. 7.
A judgment that is equal and impartial must incline
to the greater probabilities.
Bp. Wilkins.
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who or which (rarely that) is
employed; as, the king that (or who) rules
well is generally popular; Victoria, who (not
that) rules well, enjoys the confidence of her
subjects. Ambiguity may in some cases be avoided in the use of
that (which is restrictive) instead of who
or which, likely to be understood in a co\'94rdinating
sense. Bain.
That was formerly used for that which, as
what is now; but such use is now archaic.
We speak that we do know, and testify
that we have seen.
John iii. 11.
That I have done it is thyself to wite [blame].
Chaucer.
That, as a relative pronoun, cannot be governed by a
preposition preceding it, but may be governed by one at the end
of the sentence which it commences.
The ship that somebody was sailing in.
Sir W. Scott.
In Old English, that was often used with the
demonstratives he, his, him,
etc., and the two together had the force of a relative pronoun;
thus, that he = who; that his = whose;
that him = whom.
I saw to-day a corpse yborn to church
That now on Monday last I saw him wirche
[work].
Chaucer.
Formerly, that was used, where we now commonly use
which, as a relative pronoun with the demonstrative
pronoun that as its antecedent.
That that dieth, let it die; and that
that is to cut off, let it be cut off.
Zech. xi. 9.
4. As a conjunction, that retains much
of its force as a demonstrative pronoun. It is used,
specifically: --
(a) To introduce a clause employed as the object of
the preceding verb, or as the subject or predicate nominative of
a verb.
She tells them 't is a causeless fantasy,
And childish error, that they are afraid.
Shak.
I have shewed before, that a mere possibility to
the contrary, can by no means hinder a thing from being highly
credible.
Bp. Wilkins.
(b) To introduce, a reason or cause; -- equivalent
to for that, in that, for the reason
that, because.
He does hear me;
And that he does, I weep.
Shak.
(c) To introduce a purpose; -- usually followed by
may, or might, and frequently preceded by
so, in order, to the end,
etc.
These things I say, that ye might be saved.
John v. 34.
To the end that he may prolong his days.
Deut. xvii. 20.
(d) To introduce a consequence, result, or effect;
-- usually preceded by so or such,
sometimes by that.
The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds
Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Milton.
He gazed so long
That both his eyes were dazzled.
Tennyson.
(e) To introduce a clause denoting time; -- equivalent
to in which time, at which time,
when.
So wept Duessa until eventide,
That shining lamps in Jove's high course were lit.
Spenser.
Is not this the day
That Hermia should give answer of her choice?
Shak.
(f) In an elliptical sentence to introduce a
dependent sentence expressing a wish, or a cause of surprise,
indignation, or the like.
Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that
this knight and I have seen!
Shak.
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O God, that right should thus overcome might!
Shak.
That was formerly added to other
conjunctions or to adverbs to make them emphatic.
To try if that our own be ours or no.
Shak.
That is sometimes used to connect a clause with a
preceding conjunction on which it depends.
When he had carried Rome and that we looked
For no less spoil than glory.
Shak.
5. As adverb: To such a degree; so; as, he was
that frightened he could say nothing.
[Archaic or in illiteral use.]<-- = so -->
All that, everything of that kind; all that
sort.
With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.
Pope.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd [gold] for a'that.
Burns.
-- For that. See under For,
prep. -- In that. See under
In, prep.
Thatch (?), n. [OE.
thak, AS. \'ed\'91c a roof; akin to
\'edeccean to cover, D. dak a roof,
dekken to cover, G. dach a roof,
decken 8cover, Icel. \'edak a roof, Sw.
tak, Dan. tag, Lith. st\'d3gas,
Ir. teagh a house, Gael. teach,
tigh, W. ty, L. tegere to cover,
toga a toga, Gr. sthag. Cf. Deck, Integument,
Tile, Toga.] 1. Straw,
rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of
buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
2. (Bot.) A name in the West Indies for
several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for
thatching.
Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow.
[Prov. Eng.]
Thatch, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thatched (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Thatching.] [From
Thatch, n.: cf. OE. thecchen, AS.
to cover.] To cover with, or with
a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to
thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.
Thatch"er (?), n. One who
thatches.
Thatch"ing, n. 1. The act or
art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain,
snow, etc.
2. The materials used for this purpose;
thatch.
Thaught (?), n. (Naut.)
See Thwart.
Thau`ma*tol"a*try (?), n. [Gr.
Worship or undue
admiration of wonderful or miraculous things.
[R.]
The thaumatolatry by which our theology has been
debased for more than a century.
Hare.
Thau"ma*trope (?), n. [Gr. (Opt.) An optical
instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression
upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.
Thau"ma*turge (?), n. [See
Thaumaturgus.] A magician; a wonder
worker.
Lowell.
{ Thau`ma*tur"gic (?),
Thau`ma*tur"gic*al (?), } a.
Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful.
Burton.
Thau`ma*tur"gics (?), n. Feats
of legerdemain, or magical performances.
Thau`ma*tur"gist (?), n. One
who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker.
Carlyle.
\'d8Thau`ma*tur"gus (?), n.
[NL., from Gr. A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman
Catholics to some saints.
Thau"ma*tur`gy (?), n. [Gr.
The act or art of performing something
wonderful; magic; legerdemain.
T. Warton.
Thave (?), n. Same as
Theave. [Prov. Eng.]
Thaw (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Thawed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Thawing.]
[AS. \'ed\'bewian, \'ed\'bewan; akin
to D. dovijen, G. tauen, thauen
(cf. also verdauen 8digest, OHG. douwen,
firdouwen), Icel. \'edeyja, Sw.
t\'94a, Dan. t\'94e, and perhaps to Gr. 1. To melt, dissolve, or
become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as,
the ice thaws.
2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; --
said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
3. Fig.: To grow gentle or genial.
Thaw, v. t. To cause (frozen things, as
earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
Thaw, n. The melting of ice, snow, or
other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into
the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed
by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which
is congealed.
Dryden.
Thaw"y (?), a. Liquefying by
heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.
The (?), v. i. See
Thee. [Obs.]
Chaucer. Milton.
The (when emphatic or alone;
| obscure before a vowel; | e,
obscure before a consonant; 37), definite
article. [AS. \'ebe, a later form for
earlier nom. sing. masc. s\'c7, formed under the
influence of the oblique cases. See That, pron.]
A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their
meaning.
The was originally a demonstrative
pronoun, being a weakened form of that. When placed
before adjectives and participles, it converts them into abstract
nouns; as, the sublime and the beautiful.
Burke. The is used regularly before many
proper names, as of rivers, oceans, ships, etc.; as,
the Nile, the Atlantic, the
Great Eastern, the West Indies, The Hague.
The with an epithet or ordinal number often follows a
proper name; as, Alexander the Great; Napoleon
the Third. The may be employed to
individualize a particular kind or species; as, the
grasshopper shall be a burden. Eccl. xii. 5.
The, adv. [AS. \'eb\'c7,
\'eb\'df, instrumental case of s\'c7,
se\'a2, \'eb\'91t, the definite article.
See 2d The.] By that; by how much; by so
much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as,
the longer we continue in sin, the more
difficult it is to reform. \'bdYet not the
more cease I.\'b8
Milton.
So much the rather thou, Celestial Light,
Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers
Irradiate.
Milton.
\'d8The"a (?), n. [NL. See
Tea.] (Bot.) A genus of plants
found in China and Japan; the tea plant.
camellia.
The*an"dric (?), a. [Gr. Relating to, or existing
by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the
joint agency of the divine and human nature.
Murdock.
{ The`an*throp"ic (?),
The`an*throp"ic*al (?), } a.
Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and
humanity. [R.]
The gorgeous and imposing figures of his [Homer's]
theanthropic sytem.
Gladstone.
The*an"thro*pism (?), n. [Gr.
1. A state of being God
and man. [R.]
Coleridge.
2. The ascription of human atributes to the Deity,
or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism.
Gladstone.
The*an"thro*pist (?), n. One
who advocates, or believes in, theanthropism.
The*an"thro*py (?), n.
Theanthropism.
The*ar"chic (?), a. [Gr. Thearchy.] Divinely sovereign or
supreme. [R.]
He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence.
Milman.
The"ar*chy (?), n. [Gr. -archy: cf. Gr.
Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.
{ The"a*ter, The"a*tre }
(?), n. [F. th\'82\'83tre, L.
theatrum, Gr. dhy\'be to meditate, think. Cf.
Theory.] 1. An edifice in which
dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the
amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage,
but in modern times roofed.
2. Any room adapted to the exhibition of any
performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic
exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations,
etc.
3. That which resembles a theater in form, use, or
the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats
of a theater.
Burns.
Shade above shade, a woody theater
Of stateliest view.
Milton.
4. A sphere or scheme of operation.
[Obs.]
For if a man can be partaker of God's theater, he
shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.
Bacon.
5. A place or region where great events are
enacted; as, the theater of war.
{ The"a*tin, The"a*tine }
(?), n. [F. th\'82atin, It.
theatino.] (R. C. Ch.) 1.
One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524,
expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety
among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg,
but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is
preaching and giving religious instruction.
Theate, or
Chieti, a city of Naples, the archbishop of which was
a principal founder of the order; but they bore various names;
as, Regular Clerks of the Community, Pauline
Monks, Apostolic Clerks, and Regular Clerks
of the Divine Providence. The order never flourished much
out of Italy.
2. (R. C. Ch.) One of an order of nuns
founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618.
The"a*tral (?), a. [L.
theatralis: cf. F. th\'82atral.]
Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical.
[Obs.]
The*at"ric (?), a.
Theatrical.
Woods over woods in gay, theatric pride.
Goldsmith.
The*at"ric*al (?), a. [L.
theatricus, Gr. Of or pertaining to a
theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner
of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as,
theatrical performances; theatrical
gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty
(#), n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly
(#), adv.
No meretricious aid whatever has been called in -- no trick,
no illusion of the eye, nothing theatrical.
R. Jefferies.
The*at"ric*als (?), n. pl.
Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by
amateurs.
Such fashionable cant terms as \'bftheatricals,'
and \'bfmusicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still survive
among his confraternity of frivolity.
I. Disraeli.
Theave (?), n. [Cf. W.
dafad a sheep, ewe.] A ewe lamb of the
first year; also, a sheep three years old. [Written
also thave.] [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
The*ba"ic (?), a. [L.
thebaicus, Gr. Of or pertaining to
Thebes in Egypt; specifically, designating a version of the Bible
preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical
scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic
version.
The"ba*id (?), n. [L.
Thebais, -idis.] A Latin epic
poem by Statius about Thebes in B\'d2otia.
The*ba"ine (?), n. [So called
from a kind of Egyptian opium produced at
Thebes.] (Chem.) A poisonous
alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small
quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic
action resembling that of strychnine.
The"ban (?), a. [L.
Thebanus.] Of or pertaining to
Thebes.
Theban year (Anc. Chron.), the
Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours. J.
Bryant.
The"ban, n. A native or inhabitant of
Thebes; also, a wise man.
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
Shak.
\'d8The"ca (?), n.; pl.
Thec\'91 (#). [L., fr. Gr. Tick a cover.]
1. A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or
cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a
fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.
2. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The chitinous
cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids.
(b) The more or less cuplike calicle of a
coral. (c) The wall forming a calicle of a
coral.
The"cal (?), a. Of or
pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal
abscess.
The"ca*phore (?), n.
[Theca + Gr. th\'82caphore.] (Bot.) (a)
A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with
thec\'91. (b) See Basigynium.
The*cas"po*rous (?), a.
(Bot.) Having the spores in thec\'91, or
cases.
\'d8The*ca"ta (?), n. pl. [NL.,
from Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Thecophora.
Thec"la (?), n. Any one of many
species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to
Thecla and allied genera; -- called also
hairstreak, and
elfin.
The`co*dac"tyl (?), n. [ (Zo\'94l.) Any one of a
group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and
furnished with a groove in which the claws can be
concealed.
The"co*dont (?), a. [Gr. 1. (Anat.)
Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the
jaws.
2. (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to the
thecodonts.
The"co*dont, n. (Paleon.) One
of the Thecodontia.
\'d8The`co*don"ti*a (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Paleon.) A group of fossil
saurians having biconcave vertebr\'91 and the teeth implanted in
sockets.
\'d8The*coph"o*ra (?), n. pl.
[NL., from Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A division of hydroids comprising
those which have the hydranths in thec\'91 and the gonophores in
capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples.
Called also Thecata. See Illust.
under Hydroidea.
\'d8The`co*so"ma*ta (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Theca, and Soma.]
(Zo\'94l.) An order of Pteropoda comprising those
species which have a shell. See Pteropoda. --
The`co*so"ma*tous (#),
a.
The"dom (?), n.
[Thee to prosper + -dom.]
Success; fortune; luck; chance. [Obs.]
Evil thedom on his monk's snout.
Chaucer.
Thee (?), v. i. [AS.
; akin to OS. th\'c6han, D.
gedijen, G. gedeihen, OHG.
gidihan, Goth. , Lith.
tekti to fall to the lot of. Cf. Tight,
a.] To thrive; to prosper.
[Obs.] \'bdHe shall never thee.\'b8
Chaucer.
Well mote thee, as well can wish your thought.
Spenser.
Thee (?), pron. [AS.
\'eb\'c7, acc. & dat. of \'eb\'d4 thou. See
Thou.] The objective case of thou.
See Thou.
thyself, as
him for himself, etc.
This sword hath ended him; so shall it thee,
Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.
Shak.
<-- p. 1495 -->
Theft (?), n. [OE.
thefte, AS. \'edi\'82f\'ebe,
\'ed\'dff\'ebe, \'ede\'a2f\'ebe. See
Thief.] 1. (Law) The act
of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of
personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner
of the same; larceny.
Larceny,
and the Note under Robbery.
2. The thing stolen. [R.]
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive,
. . . he shall restore double.
Ex. xxii. 4.
Theft"bote` (?), n.
[Theft + bote compensation.]
(Law) The receiving of a man's goods again from a
thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with
the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.
Thegn (?), n. Thane. See
Thane.
E. A. Freeman.
Thegn"hood (?), n.
Thanehood.
E. A. Freeman.
The"i*form (?), a. [NL.
thea tea, the tea plant + -form: cf. F.
th\'82iforme.] Having the form of
tea.
The"ine (?), n. [F.
th\'82ine, fr. NL. thea. See
Theiform.] (Chem.) See
Caffeine. Called also theina.
Their (?), pron. & a. [OE.
thair, fr. Icel. \'edeirra,
\'edeira, of them, but properly gen. pl. of the
definite article; akin to AS. \'eb\'bera,
\'eb\'d6ra, gen. pl. of the definite article, or fr.
AS. \'eb\'d6ra, influenced by the Scandinavian use.
See That.] The possessive case of the
personal pronoun they; as, their houses;
their country.
theirs
(theirs is best cultivated.
Nothing but the name of zeal appears
'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs.
Denham.
The"ism (?), n. [From Gr. th\'82isme. Cf. Enthusiasm,
Pantheon, Theology.] The belief or
acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to
atheism, pantheism, or
polytheism.
The"ist (?), n. [Cf. F.
th\'82iste. See Theism.] One who
believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes
in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.
{ The*is"tic (?), The*is"tic*al
(?), } a. Of or pertaining to
theism, or a theist; according to the doctrine of theists.
Thel*phu"si*an (?), n. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.)
One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the
banks of rivers in tropical countries.
The*lyt"o*kous (?), a. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.)
Producing females only; -- said of certain female
insects.
Them (?), pron. [AS.
\'eb\'d6m, dat. pl. of the article, but influenced by
the Scand. use of the corresponding form \'edeim as a
personal pronoun. See They.] The objective
case of they. See They.
Go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for
yourselves.
Matt. xxv. 9.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father.
Matt. xxv. 34.
Them is poetically used for
themselves, as him for himself,
etc.
Little stars may hide them when they list.
Shak.
The*mat"ic (?), a. [Gr. th\'82matique.] 1.
(Gram.) Of or pertaining to the theme of a word.
See Theme, n., 4.
2. (Mus.) Of or pertaining to a theme,
or subject.
Thematic catalogue (Mus.), a
catalogue of musical works which, besides the title and other
particulars, gives in notes the theme, or first few measures, of
the whole work or of its several movements.
Theme (?), n. [OE.
teme, OF. teme, F. th\'8ame, L.
thema, Gr. Do, and cf. Thesis.] 1. A
subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a
proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
My theme is alway one and ever was.
Chaucer.
And when a soldier was the theme, my name
Was not far off.
Shak.
2. Discourse on a certain subject.
Then ran repentance and rehearsed his theme.
Piers Plowman.
It was the subject of my theme.
Shak.
3. A composition or essay required of a
pupil.
Locke.
4. (Gram.) A noun or verb, not modified
by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains
unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or
conjugation; stem.
5. That by means of which a thing is done; means;
instrument. [Obs.]
Swift.
6. (Mus.) The leading subject of a
composition or a movement.
The"mis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
(Gr. Myth.)
The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing
rights.
Them*selves" (?), pron. The
plural of himself, herself, and
itself. See Himself, Herself,
Itself.
Then (?), adv. [Originally the
same word as than. See Than.]
1. At that time (referring to a time specified,
either past or future).
And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Gen. xii. 6.
Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as
also I am known.
1 Cor. xiii. 12.
2. Soon afterward, or immediately; next;
afterward.
First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come
and offer thy gift.
Matt. v. 24.
3. At another time; later; again.
One while the master is not aware of what is done, and
then in other cases it may fall out to be own act.
L'Estrange.
By then. (a) By that time.
(b) By the time that. [Obs.]
But that opinion, I trust, by then this following
argument hath been well read, will be left for one of the
mysteries of an indulgent Antichrist.
Milton.
Now and then. See under Now,
adv. -- Till then, until that
time; until the time mentioned. Milton.
Then is often used elliptically, like an
adjective, for then existing; as, the then
administration.
Then (?), conj. 1.
Than. [Obs.]
Spenser.
2. In that case; in consequence; as a consequence;
therefore; for this reason.
If all this be so, then man has a natural
freedom.
Locke.
Now, then, be all thy weighty cares away.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Therefore. Then,
Therefore. Both these words are used in reasoning; but
therefore takes the lead, while then is
rather subordinate or incidental. Therefore states
reasons and draws inferences in form; then, to a great
extent, takes the point as proved, and passes on to the general
conclusion. \'bdTherefore being justified by faith, we
have peace with God.\'b8 Rom. v. 1. \'bdSo
then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God.\'b8 Rom. x. 17.
Then"a*days (?), adv. At that
time; then; in those days; -- correlative to
nowadays. [R.]
{ The"nal (?), The"nar
(?), } a. [NL., fr. Gr.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the
thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.
The"nar (?), n. (Anat.)
(a) The palm of the hand. (b)
The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the
thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the
corresponding part of the foot.
The*nard"ite (?), n. [Named
after the French chemist, L.J.Th\'82nard.]
(Min.) Anhydrous sodium sulphate, a mineral of a
white or brown color and vitreous luster.
Thence (?), adv. [OE.
thenne, thanne, and (with the adverbal
-s; see -wards) thennes,
thannes (hence thens, now written
thence), AS. \'ebanon, \'ebanan,
\'ebonan; akin to OHG. dannana,
dann\'ben, dan\'ben, and G. von
dannen, E. that, there. See
That.] 1. From that place.
\'bdBid him thence go.\'b8
Chaucer.
When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under
your feet for a testimony against them.
Mark vi. 11.
from before thence. Cf. Hence,
Whence.
Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence.
Gen. xxvii. 45.
2. From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.
There shall be no more thence an infant of
days.
Isa. lxv. 20.
3. For that reason; therefore.
Not to sit idle with so great a gift
Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him.
Milton.
4. Not there; elsewhere; absent.
[Poetic]
Shak.
Thence`forth" (?), adv. From
that time; thereafter.
If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
it is thenceforth good for nothing.
Matt. v. 13.
This word is sometimes preceded by from, --
a redundancy sanctioned by custom.
Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
Thence`for"ward (?), adv. From
that time onward; thenceforth.
Thence`from" (?), adv. From
that place. [Obs.]
The`o*bro"ma (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. th\'82obrome.] (Bot.) A genus of
small trees. See Cacao.
The`o*bro"mic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an
acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma
Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypog\'91a),
etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance.
The`o*bro"mine (?), n.
(Chem.) An alkaloidal ureide,
C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling
caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao
and chocolate (from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white
crystalline substance; -- called also dimethyl
xanthine.
The`o*chris"tic (?), a. [Gr.
Anointed by God.
The*oc"ra*cy (?), n. [Gr. th\'82ocratie. See Theism, and cf.
Democracy.] 1. Government of a state
by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the
exercise of political authority by priests as representing the
Deity.
2. The state thus governed, as the Hebrew
commonwealth before it became a kingdom.
The*oc"ra*sy (?), n. [Gr. 1. A mixture of the worship of
different gods, as of Jehovah and idols.
This syncretistic theocracy by no means excludes in
him [Solomon] the proper service of idols.
J. Murphy.
2. (Philos.) An intimate union of the
soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists
and of some Oriental mystics.
The"o*crat (?), n. One who
lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil
affairs conforms to divine law.
{ The`o*crat"ic (?),
The`o*crat"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. th\'82ocratique.] Of or
pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction
of God; as, the theocratical state of the
Israelites.
The*od"i*cy (?), n. [NL.
theodic\'91a, fr. Gr. th\'82odic\'82e.] 1. A
vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting
natural and moral evil.
2. That department of philosophy which treats of
the being, perfections, and government of God, and the
immortality of the soul.
Krauth-Fleming.
The*od"o*lite (?), n. [Probably
a corruption of the alidade. See
Alidade.] An instrument used, especially in
trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of
horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is
variously constructed.
The*od`o*lit"ic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to a theodolite; made by means of a theodolite;
as, theodolitic observations.
The`o*gon"ic (?), a. Of or
relating to theogony.
The*og"o*nism (?), n.
Theogony. [R.]
The*og"o*nist (?), n. A writer
on theogony.
The*og"o*ny (?), n. [L.
theogonia, Gr. Theism, and Genus.] The
generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen
theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities;
also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the
Theogony of Hesiod.
The*ol"o*gas`ter (?), n.
[Formed like poetaster: cf. F.
th\'82ologastre.] A pretender or quack in
theology. [R.]
Burton.
The*ol"o*ger (?), n. A
theologian.
Cudworth.
The`o*lo"gi*an (?), n. [Cf. F.
th\'82ologien, L. theologus, Gr. Theology.] A person well versed in theology;
a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.
The`o*log"ic (?), a.
Theological.
The`o*log"ic*al (?), a. [L.
theologicus, Gr. th\'82ologique.] Of or pertaining to
theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a
theological treatise. --
The`o*log"ic*al*ly,
adv.
The`o*log"ics (?), n.
Theology.
Young.
The*ol"o*gist (?), n. A
theologian.
The*ol"o*gize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Theologized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Theologizing
(?).] [Cf. F.
th\'82ologiser.] To render theological; to
apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.
School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy
theologized.
Glanvill.
The*ol"o*gize, v. i. To frame a system
of theology; to theorize or speculate upon theological
subjects.
The*ol"o*gi`zer (?), n. One who
theologizes; a theologian. [R.]
Boyle.
The"o*logue (?), n. [Cf. L.
theologus, Gr. philologue.] 1. A
theologian.
Dryden.
Ye gentle theologues of calmer kind.
Young.
He [Jerome] was the theologue -- and the word is
designation enough.
I. Taylor.
2. A student in a theological seminary.
[Written also theolog.] [Colloq.
U.S.]
The*ol"o*gy (?), n.; pl.
Theologies (#). [L.
theologia, Gr. th\'82ologie. See Theism, and
Logic.] The science of God or of religion;
the science which treats of the existence, character, and
attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are
to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more
commonly understood) \'bdthe knowledge derivable from the
Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the
science of Christian faith and life.\'b8
Many speak of theology as a science of religion
[instead of \'bdscience of God\'b8] because they disbelieve that
there is any knowledge of God to be attained.
Prof. R. Flint (Enc. Brit.).
Theology is ordered knowledge; representing in the
region of the intellect what religion represents in the heart and
life of man.
Gladstone.
Ascetic theology, Natural
theology. See Ascetic,
Natural. -- Moral theology, that
phase of theology which is concerned with moral character and
conduct. -- Revealed theology, theology which
is to be learned only from revelation. -- Scholastic
theology, theology as taught by the scholastics, or as
prosecuted after their principles and methods. --
Speculative theology, theology as founded upon, or
influenced by, speculation or metaphysical philosophy. --
Systematic theology, that branch of theology of
which the aim is to reduce all revealed truth to a series of
statements that together shall constitute an organized
whole. E. G. Robinson (Johnson's Cyc.).
The*om"a*chist (?), n. [Cf. Gr.
One who fights against the gods; one who resists
God of the divine will.
The*om"a*chy (?), n. [Gr. 1. A fighting
against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the
gods.
2. A battle or strife among the gods.
Gladstone.
3. Opposition to God or the divine will.
Bacon.
The"o*man`cy (?), n. [Gr. -mancy: cf. F. th\'82omancie, Gr. A kind of divination drawn
from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.
{ The`o*pa*thet"ic (?),
The`o*path"ic (?), } a.
Of or pertaining to a theopathy.
The*op"a*thy (?), n. [Gr. Capacity for
religious affections or worship.
The`o*phan"ic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to a theopany; appearing to man, as a god.
The*oph"a*ny (?), n.; pl.
-nies (#). [Gr. A manifestation of God to man by actual
appearance, usually as an incarnation.
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The`o*phil`an*throp"ic (?), a.
Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the
theophilanthropists.
The`o*phi*lan"thro*pism (?), n.
The doctrine of the theophilanthropists;
theophilanthropy.
The`o*phi*lan"thro*pist (?), n.
[Cf. F. th\'82ophilanthrope.] (Eccl.
Hist.) A member of a deistical society established at
Paris during the French revolution.
The`o*phi*lan"thro*py (?), n.
[Gr. philanthropy.]
Theophilanthropism.
Macaulay.
The`o*phil`o*soph"ic (?), a.
[Gr. philosophic.]
Combining theism and philosophy, or pertaining to the
combination of theism and philosophy.
The`op*neus"ted (?), a.
Divinely inspired; theopneustic. [R.]
The`op*neus"tic (?), a. [Gr.
Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.
The"op*neus`ty (?), n. [Gr.
Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence
of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate
revealed truth.
The*or"bist (?), n.
(Mus.) One who plays on a theorbo.
The*or"bo (?), n. [F.
th\'82orbe, t\'82orbe, formerly
tuorbe, tiorbe, It.
tiorba.] (Mus.) An instrument
made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of
pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while
to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open
notes.
theorbo was also called
the archlute, and was used chiefly, if not
only, as an accompaniment to the voice. Both have long fallen
into disuse.
The"o*rem (?), n. [L.
theorema, Gr. th\'82or\'8ame. See Theory.]
1. That which is considered and established as a
principle; hence, sometimes, a rule.
Not theories, but theorems (
Coleridge.
By the theorems,
Which your polite and terser gallants practice,
I re-refine the court, and civilize
Their barbarous natures.
Massinger.
2. (Math.) A statement of a principle to
be demonstrated.
theorem is something to be proved, and
is thus distinguished from a problem, which is
something to be solved. In analysis, the term is sometimes
applied to a rule, especially a rule or statement of relations
expressed in a formula or by symbols; as, the binomial
theorem; Taylor's theorem. See the Note
under Proposition, n., 5.
Binomial theorem. (Math.) See under
Binomial. -- Negative theorem, a
theorem which expresses the impossibility of any assertion.
-- Particular theorem (Math.), a
theorem which extends only to a particular quantity. --
Theorem of Pappus. (Math.) See
Centrobaric method, under Centrobaric.
-- Universal theorem (Math.), a theorem
which extends to any quantity without restriction.
The"o*rem, v. t. To formulate into a
theorem.
{ The`o*re*mat"ic (?),
The`o*re*mat"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. Gr. Of or pertaining to a theorem or
theorems; comprised in a theorem; consisting of theorems.
The`o*rem"a*tist (?), n. One
who constructs theorems.
The`o*rem"ic (?), a.
Theorematic.
Grew.
{ The`o*ret"ic (?),
The`o*ret"ic*al (?), } a.
[Gr. theoreticus, F.
th\'82or\'82tique.] Pertaining to theory;
depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative;
terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as,
theoretical learning; theoretic
sciences. -- The`o*ret"ic*al*ly,
adv.
The`o*ret"ics (?), n. The
speculative part of a science; speculation.
At the very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, as
represented to us in the New Testament, morals come before
contemplation, ethics before theoretics.
H. B. Wilson.
The*or"ic (?), a. [Cf. F.
th\'82orique. See Theory.] 1.
Of or pertaining to the theorica.
2. (pron. Relating to, or
skilled in, theory; theoretically skilled.
[Obs.]
A man but young,
Yet old in judgment, theoric and practic
In all humanity.
Massinger.
The"o*ric (?), n. [OF.
theorique; cf. L. theorice.]
Speculation; theory. [Obs.]
Shak.
\'d8The*or"i*ca (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. Theory.] (Gr.
Antiq.) Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals,
sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical
performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called
theoric fund.
The*or"ic*al (?), a.
Theoretic. [Obs.]
Bp. Hall.
The*or"ic*al*ly, adv. In a theoretic
manner. [Obs.]
The"o*rist (?), n. [Cf. F.
th\'82oriste.] One who forms theories; one
given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.
Cowper.
The greatest theoretists have given the preference
to such a government as that which obtains in this kingdom.
Addison.
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The`o*ri*za"tion (?), n. The
act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or
theories; speculation.
The"o*rize (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Theorized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Theorizing
(?).] [Cf. F.
th\'82oriser.] To form a theory or
theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
The"o*ri`zer (?), n. One who
theorizes or speculates; a theorist.
The"o*ry (?), n.; pl.
Theories (#). [F.
th\'82orie, L. theoria, Gr. Theater.]
1. A doctrine, or scheme of things, which
terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to
practice; hypothesis; speculation.
hypothesis, and hypothesis
is commonly used as another term for conjecture. The
terms theory and theoretical are properly
used in opposition to the terms practice and
practical. In this sense, they were exclusively
employed by the ancients; and in this sense, they are almost
exclusively employed by the Continental philosophers.\'b8
Sir W. Hamilton.
2. An exposition of the general or abstract
principles of any science; as, the theory of
music.
3. The science, as distinguished from the art;
as, the theory and practice of medicine.
4. The philosophical explanation of phenomena,
either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of
combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral
sentiments.
Atomic theory, Binary
theory, etc. See under Atomic,
Binary, etc.
Syn. -- Hypothesis, speculation. --
Theory, Hypothesis. A theory is a
scheme of the relations subsisting between the parts of a
systematic whole; an hypothesis is a tentative
conjecture respecting a cause of phenomena.
{ The"o*soph (?), The*os"o*pher
(?), } n. A theosophist.
{ The`o*soph"ic (?),
The`o*soph"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. th\'82osophique.] Of or
pertaining to theosophy. --
The`o*soph"ic*al*ly,
adv.
The*os"o*phism (?), n. [Cf. F.
th\'82osophisme.] Belief in
theosophy.
Murdock.
The*os"o*phist (?), n. One
addicted to theosophy.
The theosophist is one who gives you a theory of
God, or of the works of God, which has not reason, but an
inspiration of his own, for its basis.
R. A. Vaughan.
The*os`o*phis"tic*al (?), a. Of
or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.
The*os"o*phize (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Theosophized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Theosophizing.] To practice
theosophy. [R.]
The*os"o*phy (?), n. [Gr. th\'82osophie.]
Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to
attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent
superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic
operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical
processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as
distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be
attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct
insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior
relations of the divine nature.
\'d8Ther`a*peu"t\'91 (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. Therapeutic.] (Eccl.
Hist.) A name given to certain ascetics said to have
anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are
described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and
credibility of which are now much discredited.
{ Ther`a*peu"tic (?),
Ther`a*peu"tic*al (?), } a.
[F. th\'82rapeutique, Gr. (Med.) Of or
pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and
applying remedies for diseases; curative.
\'bdTherapeutic or curative physic.\'b8
Sir T. Browne.
Medicine is justly distributed into \'bdprophylactic,\'b8 or
the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the
art of restoring it.
I. Watts.
Ther`a*peu"tic, n. One of the
Therapeut\'91.
Ther`a*peu"tics (?), n. [Cf. F.
th\'82rapeutique.] That part of medical
science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies
for diseases.
Ther`a*peu"tist (?), n. One
versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of
remedies.
Ther"a*py (?), n. [Gr.
Therapeutics.
There (?), adv. [OE.
ther, AS. \'eb\'d6r; akin to D.
daar, G. da, OHG. d\'ber, Sw. &
Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. \'edar, Skr.
tarhi then, and E. that. \'fb184. See
That, pron.] 1. In or at
that place. \'bd[They] there left me and my man,
both bound together.\'b8
Shak.
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed.
Ge. ii. 8.
here,
there usually signifies a place farther off.
\'bdDarkness there might well seem twilight
here.\'b8 Milton.
2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point,
stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not
stop there, but continued his speech.
The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend
And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
Shak.
3. To or into that place; thither.
The rarest that e'er came there.
Shak.
There is sometimes used by way of
exclamation, calling the attention to something, especially to
something distant; as, there, there! see
there! look there! There is
often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a
sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject.
A knight there was, and that a worthy man.
Chaucer.
There is a path which no fowl knoweth.
Job xxviii. 7.
Wherever there is a sense or perception,
there some idea is actually produced.
Locke.
There have been that have delivered themselves from
their ills by their good fortune or virtue.
Suckling.
There is much used in composition, and
often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout,
Thereafter, Therefrom, etc.
There was formerly used in the sense of
where.
Spend their good there it is reasonable.
Chaucer.
Here and there, in one place and
another.
Syn. -- See Thither.
{ There"a*bout` (?),
There"a*bouts` (?), } adv.
[The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly
used.] 1. Near that place.
2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly;
as, ten men, or thereabouts.
Five or six thousand horse . . . or
thereabouts.
Shak.
Some three months since, or thereabout.
Suckling.
3. Concerning that; about that.
[R.]
What will ye dine? I will go thereabout.
Chaucer.
They were much perplexed thereabout.
Luke xxiv. 4.
There*af"ter (?), adv. [AS.
\'eb\'d6r\'91fter after that. See There, and
After.] 1. After that;
afterward.
2. According to that; accordingly.
I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the
church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean
themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine,
imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Milton.
3. Of that sort. [Obs.] \'bdMy
audience is not thereafter.\'b8
Latimer.
There"a*gain` (?), adv. In
opposition; against one's course. [Obs.]
If that him list to stand thereagain.
Chaucer.
There"-a*nent` (?), adv.
Concerning that. [Scot.]
There*at" (?), adv. 1.
At that place; there.
Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat.
Matt. vii. 13.
2. At that occurrence or event; on that
account.
Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature; for which
cause it blusheth thereat.
Hooker.
{ There`be*fore" (?),
There`bi*forn" (?), } adv.
Before that time; beforehand. [Obs.]
Many a winter therebiforn.
Chaucer.
There*by" (?), adv. 1.
By that; by that means; in consequence of that.
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace;
thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job xxii. 21.
2. Annexed to that. \'bdThereby
hangs a tale.\'b8
Shak.
3. Thereabout; -- said of place, number, etc.
Chaucer.
There*for" (?), adv.
[There + for. Cf.
Therefore.] For that, or this; for it.
With certain officers ordained therefore.
Chaucer.
There"fore (?), conj. & adv.
[OE. therfore. See There, and
Fore, adv., For, and cf.
Therefor.] 1. For that or this
reason, referring to something previously stated; for that.
I have married a wife, and therefore I can not
come.
Luke xiv. 20.
Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we
have therefore?
Matt. xix. 27.
2. Consequently; by consequence.
He blushes; therefore he is guilty.
Spectator.
Syn. -- See Then.
There*from" (?), adv. From this
or that.
Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to
the left.
John. xxiii. 6.
There*in" (?), adv. In that or
this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect.
Wyclif.
He pricketh through a fair forest,
Therein is many a wild beast.
Chaucer.
Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply
therein.
Gen. ix. 7.
Therein our letters do not well agree.
Shak.
There`in*to" (?), adv. Into
that or this, or into that place.
Bacon.
Let not them . . . enter thereinto.
Luke xxi. 21.
There*of" (?), adv. Of that or
this.
In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt
surely die.
Gen. ii. 17.
The`re*ol"o*gy (?), n.
Therapeutios.
There*on" (?), adv. [AS.
. See There, and On.]
On that or this.
Chaucer.
Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
Esther vii. 9.
There*out" (?), adv. 1.
Out of that or this.
He shall take thereout his handful of the
flour.
Lev. ii. 2.
2. On the outside; out of doors.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
There*to" (?), adv. 1.
To that or this.
Chaucer.
2. Besides; moreover. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red.
Chaucer.
There`to*fore" (?), adv. Up to
that time; before then; -- correlative with
heretofore.
There*un"der (?), adv. Under
that or this.
There`un*to" (?), adv. Unto
that or this; thereto; besides.
Shak.
There`up*on" (?), adv. 1.
Upon that or this; thereon. \'bdThey shall feed
thereupon.\'b8
Zeph. ii. 7.
2. On account, or in consequence, of that;
therefore.
[He] hopes to find you forward, . . .
And thereupon he sends you this good news.
Shak.
3. Immediately; at once; without delay.
There*while" (?), adv. At that
time; at the same time. [Obs.]
Laud.
There*with" (?), adv. 1.
With that or this. \'bdI have learned in whatsoever
state I am, therewith to be content.\'b8
Phil. iv. 11.
2. In addition; besides; moreover.
To speak of strength and therewith hardiness.
Chaucer.
3. At the same time; forthwith.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
There`with*al" (?), adv. 1.
Over and above; besides; moreover. [Obs.]
Daniel.
And therewithal it was full poor and bad.
Chaucer.
2. With that or this; therewith; at the same
time.
Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits.
Shak.
And therewithal one came and seized on her,
And Enid started waking.
Tennyson.
Therf (?), a. [AS.
; akin to OHG. derb, Icel.
.] Not fermented; unleavened; --
said of bread, loaves, etc. [Obs.]
Pask and the feast of therf loaves.
Wyclif.
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{ The"ri*ac (?), \'d8The*ri"a*ca
(?), } n. [L. theriaca
an antidote against the bite of serpents, Gr. th\'82riaque. See Treacle.] 1.
(Old Med.) An ancient composition esteemed
efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain
compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced
by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also
theriaca Andromachi, and Venice
treacle.
2. Treacle; molasses.
British Pharm.
{ The"ri*ac (?), The*ri"a*cal
(?), } a. [Cf. F.
th\'82riacal.] Of or pertaining to theriac;
medicinal. \'bdTheriacal herbs.\'b8
Bacon.
The"ri*al (?), a.
Theriac. [R.]
Holland.
The"ri*o*dont (?), n.
(Paleon.) One of the Theriodontia. Used also
adjectively.
\'d8The`ri*o*don"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Paleon.) Same as
Theriodontia.
\'d8The`ri*o*don"ti*a (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.) An extinct order of
reptiles found in the Permian and Triassic formations in South
Africa. In some respects they resembled carnivorous mammals.
Called also Theromorpha.
Dicynodont.
The`ri*ot"o*my (?), n. [Gr. Zo\'94tomy.
\'d8Ther"m\'91 (?), n. pl. [L.
See Thermal.] Springs or baths of warm or hot
water.
Ther"mal (?), a. [L.
thermae hot springs, fr. Gr. formus warm, and E. forceps.] Of
or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal
unit; thermal waters.
The thermal condition of the earth.
J. D. Forbes.
Thermal conductivity, Thermal
spectrum. See under Conductivity, and
Spectrum. -- Thermal unit
(Physics), a unit chosen for the comparison or
calculation of quantities of heat. The unit most commonly
employed is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature
of one gram or one pound of water from zero to one degree
Centigrade. See Calorie, and under
Unit.
Ther"mal*ly, adv. In a thermal
manner.
Ther*met"o*graph (?), n. [Gr.
-graph.] A
self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the
maximum and minimum during long periods.
Nichol.
Ther"mic (?), a. [Gr. Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal;
as, thermic lines.
Thermic balance. See Bolometer.
-- Thermic fever (Med.), the condition
of fever produced by sunstroke. See Sunstroke. --
Thermic weight. (Mech.) Same as
Heat weight, under Heat.
\'d8Ther`mi`dor" (?), n. [F.,
fr. Gr. The eleventh month of the
French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending
August 17. See the Note under Vend\'82miaire.
Ther*mif"u*gine (?), n. [Gr.
fugere to flee.]
(Chem.) An artificial alkaloid of complex
composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, --
whence its name.
Ther"mo- (?). A combining form from Gr.
qe`rmh heat, qermo`s
hot, warm; as in
thermochemistry, thermodynamic.
Ther`mo*ba*rom"e*ter (?), n.
[Thermo- + barometer.]
(Physics) An instrument for determining altitudes
by the boiling point of water.
Ther`mo*bat"ter*y (?), n.
[Thermo- + battery.] A
thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.
Ther`mo*cau"ter*y (?), n.
[Thermo- + cautery.]
(Surg.) Cautery by the application of heat.
Paquelin's thermocautery, thermocautery by
means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by
the passage through it of benzine vapor.
{ Ther`mo*chem"ic (?),
Ther`mo*chem"ic*al (?), } a.
(Chem. Physics) Of or pertaining to
thermochemistry; obtained by, or employed in,
thermochemistry.
Ther`mo*chem"is*try (?), n.
[Thermo- + chemistry.] That
branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of
the various relations existing between chemical action and that
manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the
heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.
Ther*moch"ro*sy (?), n.
[Thermo- + Gr.
(Physics) The property possessed by heat of being
composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of
refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of
transmission through diathermic substances.
Ther"mo*cur`rent (?), n.
[Thermo- + current.]
(Physics) A current, as of electricity,
developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
Ther`mo*dy*nam"ic (?), a.
[Thermo- + dynamic.]
(Physics) Relating to thermodynamics; caused or
operated by force due to the application of heat.
Thermodynamic function. See Heat
weight, under Heat.
Ther`mo*dy*nam"ics (?), n. The
science which treats of the mechanical action or relations of
heat.
Ther`mo*e*lec"tric (?), a.
(Physics) Pertaining to thermoelectricity;
as, thermoelectric currents.
Ther`mo*e`lec*tric"i*ty (?), n.
[Thermo- + electricity: cf. F.
thermo\'82lectricit\'82.] (Physics)
Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note
under Electricity.
Ther`mo*e`lec*trom"e*ter (?), n.
[Thermo- + electrometer.]
(Physics) An instrument for measuring the
strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or
for determining the heat developed by such a current.
Ther"mo*gen (?), n.
[Thermo- + -gen.] (Old
Chem.) Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but
imponderable substance.
Ther`mo*gen"ic (?), a.
(Physiol.) Relating to heat, or to the production
of heat; producing heat; thermogenous; as, the
thermogenic tissues.
Ther*mog"e*nous (?), a.
[Thermo- + -genous.]
(Physiol.) Producing heat; thermogenic.
Ther"mo*graph (?), n.
[Thermo- + -graph.]
(Physics) An instrument for automatically
recording indications of the variation of temperature.
Ther*mol"o*gy (?), n.
[Thermo- + -logy.] A
discourse on, or an account of, heat.
Whewell.
Ther*mol"y*sis (?), n.
[Thermo- + Gr.
(Chem.) The resolution of a compound into parts
by heat; dissociation by heat.
Ther"mo*lyze (?), v. t.
(Chem.) To subject to thermolysis; to dissociate
by heat.
Ther`mo*mag"net*ism (?), n.
[Thermo- + magnetism.]
Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the
relation of heat to magnetism.
Ther*mom"e*ter (?), n.
[Thermo- + -meter: cf. F. thermom\'8atre.
See Thermal.] (Physics) An
instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle
that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by
proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.
thermometer usually consists of a
glass tube of capillary bore, terminating in a bulb, and
containing mercury or alcohol, which expanding or contracting
according to the temperature to which it is exposed, indicates
the degree of heat or cold by the amount of space occupied, as
shown by the position of the top of the liquid column on a
graduated scale. See Centigrade, Fahrenheit,
and R\'82aumur.
To reduce degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Centigrade, substract
32\'f8 and multiply by
Air thermometer, Balance
thermometer, etc. See under Air,
Balance, etc. -- Metallic thermometer,
a form of thermometer indicating changes of temperature by
the expansion or contraction of rods or strips of metal. --
Register thermometer, Self-registering
thermometer, a thermometer that registers the
maximum and minimum of temperature occurring in the interval of
time between two consecutive settings of the instrument. A common
form contains a bit of steel wire to be pushed before the column
and left at the point of maximum temperature, or a slide of
enamel, which is drawn back by the liquid, and left within it at
the point of minimum temperature.
{ Ther`mo*met"ric (?),
Ther`mo*met"ric*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. thermom\'82trique.] 1.
Of or pertaining to a thermometer; as, the
thermometrical scale or tube.
2. Made, or ascertained, by means of a thermometer;
as, thermometrical observations.
Ther`mo*met"ric*al*ly (?), adv.
In a thermometrical manner; by means of a thermometer.
Ther`mo*met"ro*graph (?), n.
[Thermo- + Gr. -graph.] (Physics) An instrument
for recording graphically the variations of temperature, or the
indications of a thermometer.
Ther*mom"e*try (?), n. The
estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric
apparatus.
Ther`mo*mul"ti*pli`er (?), n.
[Thermo- + multiplier.]
Same as Thermopile.
Ther"mo*pile (?), n.
[Thermo- + pile a heap.]
(Physics) An instrument of extreme sensibility,
used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is
composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two
metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat,
connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly
affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars
when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat.
Ther"mo*scope (?), n.
[Thermo- + -scope.]
(Physics) An instrument for indicating changes of
temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is
affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford
which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the
differential thermometer.
Ther`mo*scop"ic (?), a.
(Physics) Of or pertaining to the thermoscope;
made by means of the thermoscope; as, thermoscopic
observations.
Ther"mo*stat (?), n.
[Thermo- + Gr.
(Physics) A self-acting apparatus for regulating
temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals,
liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of
a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is
desired.
Ther`mo*stat"ic (?), a.
(Physics) Of or pertaining to the thermostat;
made or effected by means of the thermostat.
Ther`mo*sys*tal"tic (?), a.
[Thermo- + systalic.]
(Physiol.) Influenced in its contraction by heat
or cold; -- said of a muscle.
Ther`mo*tax"ic (?), a.
[Thermo- + Gr.
(Physiol.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the
regulation of temperature in the animal body; as, the
thermotaxic nervous system.
Ther`mo*ten"sion (?), n.
[Thermo- + tension.] A
process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it
to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that
state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which
the strength is afterward to be exerted.
{ Ther*mot"ic (?), Ther*mot"ic*al
(?), } a. [Gr. Of or pertaining to heat; produced by heat;
as, thermotical phenomena.
Whewell.
Ther*mot"ics (?), n. The
science of heat.
Whewell.
Ther`mo*trop"ic (?), a.
(Bot.) Manifesting thermotropism.
Ther*mot"ro*pism (?), n.
[Thermo- + Gr.
(Bot.) The phenomenon of turning towards a source
of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.
Ther"mo*type (?), n.
[Thermo- + -type.] A
picture (as of a slice of wood) obtained by first wetting the
object slightly with hydrochloric or dilute sulphuric acid, then
taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this
impression.
Ther*mot"y*py (?), n. The art
or process of obtaining thermotypes.
Ther`mo*vol*ta"ic (?), a.
[Thermo- + voltaic.]
(Physics) Of or relating to heat and electricity;
especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic
action.
Faraday.
\'d8The`ro*mor"pha (?), n. pl.
[NL.: Gr. (Paleon.)
See Theriodonta.
\'d8The*rop"o*da (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Paleon.) An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in
which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an
ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the
repacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus,
and their allies.
\'d8The*sau"rus (?), n.; pl.
Thesauri (#). [L. See
Treasure.] A treasury or storehouse; hence, a
repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a
comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
These (?), pron. [OE.
, , a variant of
, pl. of , thes, this.
See This, and cf. Those.] The plural
of this. See This.
Thes"i*cle (?), n. [Dim. of
thesis.] A little or subordinate thesis; a
proposition.
The"sis (?), n.; pl.
Theses (#). [L., fr. Gr. Do, and cf. Anathema,
Apothecary, Epithet, Hypothesis,
Parenthesis, Theme, Tick a
cover.] 1. A position or proposition which a
person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually
maintained by argument.
2. Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon
specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a
candidate for a diploma or degree.
I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment
they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two
homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare
them.
Goldsmith.
3. (Logic) An affirmation, or
distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
4. (Mus.) The accented part of the
measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of
arsis.
5. (Pros.) (a) The depression
of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
(b) The part of the foot upon which such a
depression falls.
Thes"mo*thete (?), n. [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.) A
lawgiver; a legislator; one of the six junior archons at
Athens.
Thes"pi*an (?), a. [From L.
Thespis, Gr. Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating
to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian
art. -- n. An
actor.
Thes*sa"li*an (?), a. [Cf. L.
Thessalius.] Of or pertaining to Thessaly
in Greece. Shak. -- n. A
native or inhabitant of Thessaly.
Thes`sa*lo"ni*an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia. --
n. A native or inhabitant of
Thessalonica.
The"ta (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
qh^ta, the Greek letter
A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th
in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter,
from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing
condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the
Greek qa`natos, death.
Theta function (Math.), one of a
group of functions used in developing the properties of elliptic
functions.
Thet"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. Thesis.] Laid down; absolute or positive, as
a law.
Dr. H. More.
The"tine (?), n.
[Thio + ether +
sulphine.] (Chem.) Any one of a
series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the
sulphines.
{ The*ur"gic (?), The*ur"gic*al
(?), } a. [L.
theurgicus, Gr. th\'82urgique.] Of or pertaining to
theurgy; magical.
Theurgic hymns, songs of
incantation.
The"ur*gist (?), n. [Cf. F.
th\'82urgiste.] One who pretends to, or is
addicted to, theurgy.
Hallywell.
<-- p. 1498 -->
The"ur*gy (?), n. [L.
theurgia, Gr. th\'82urgie. See
Theism, and Work.] 1. A
divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.
2. A kind of magical science or art developed in
Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to
influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other
sacramental rites.
Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
3. In later or modern magic, that species of magic
in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural
agency, in distinction from natural magic.
Thew (?), n. [Chiefly used in
the plural Thews (.] [OE.
thew, , manner, habit, strength, AS.
manner, habit (cf. to
drive); akin to OS. thau custom, habit, OHG.
dou. \'fb56.] 1. Manner; custom;
habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition;
specifically, good qualities; virtues. [Obs.]
For her great light
Of sapience, and for her thews clear.
Chaucer.
Evil speeches destroy good thews.
Wyclif (1 Cor. xv. 33).
To be upbrought in gentle thews and martial
might.
Spenser.
2. Muscle or strength; nerve; brawn; sinew.
Shak.
And I myself, who sat apart
And watched them, waxed in every limb;
I felt the thews of Anakim,
The pules of a Titan's heart.
Tennyson.
Thewed (?), a. 1.
Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a
well-thewed limb.
2. Accustomed; mannered. [Obs.]
John Skelton.
Yet would not seem so rude and thewed ill.
Spenser.
Thew"y (?), a. Having strong or
large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong.
They (?), pron. pl.;
poss. Theirs; obj.
Them. [Icel.
they, properly nom. pl. masc. of s\'be,
s, , a demonstrative
pronoun, akin to the English definite article, AS.
s\'c7, se\'a2, , nom.
pl. . See That.] The
plural of he, she, or it.
They is never used adjectively, but always as a
pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an
antecedent expressed.
Jolif and glad they went unto here
[their] rest
And casten hem [them] full early for to sail.
Chaucer.
They of Italy salute you.
Heb. xiii. 24.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness.
Matt. v. 6.
They is used indefinitely, as our
ancestors used man, and as the French use
on; as, they say (French on
dit), that is, it is said by persons not specified.
Thi*al"dine (?), n.
[Thio- + aldehyde +
-ine.] (Chem.) A weak
nitrogenous sulphur base, C6H13NS2.
Thi"al*ol (?), n.
[Thio- + alcohol + L. oleum
oil.] (Chem.) A colorless oily liquid,
(C2H5)2S2, having a strong garlic odor; --
called also ethyl disulphide. By extension,
any one of the series of related compounds.
Thib"e*tan (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Thibet. -- n. A native
or inhabitant of Thibet.<-- now usu. Tibetan and
Tibet. -->
Thib"et cloth` (?). (a) A fabric
made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet. (b)
A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks,
etc.
Thi*be"tian (?), a. & n. Same
as Thibetan.<-- = Tibetan -->
Thi"ble (?), n. A slice; a
skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.]
Ainsworth.
Thick (?), a.
[Compar. Thicker (?);
superl. Thickest.] [OE.
thicke, AS. ; akin to D.
dik, OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi
thick, dense, G. dick thick, Icel. ,
, and probably to Gael. & Ir.
tiugh. Cf. Tight.] 1.
Measuring in the third dimension other than length and
breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a
solid body; as, a timber seven inches
thick.
Were it as thick as is a branched oak.
Chaucer.
My little finger shall be thicker than my father's
loins.
1 Kings xii. 10.
2. Having more depth or extent from one surface to
its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a
thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper;
thick neck.
3. Dense; not thin; inspissated; as,
thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as,
thick darkness.
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Shak.
4. Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy,
or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be
thick after a rain. \'bdIn a
thick, misty day.\'b8
Sir W. Scott.
5. Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely
set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.
The people were gathered thick together.
Luke xi. 29.
Black was the forest; thick with beech it
stood.
Dryden.
6. Not having due distinction of syllables, or good
articulation; indistinct; as, a thick
utterance.
7. Deep; profound; as, thick
sleep. [R.]
Shak.
8. Dull; not quick; as, thick of
fearing.
Shak.
His dimensions to any thick sight were
invincible.
Shak.
9. Intimate; very friendly; familiar.
[Colloq.]
We have been thick ever since.
T. Hughes.
Thick is often used in the formation of
compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as,
thick-barred, thick-bodied,
thick-coming, thick-cut,
thick-flying, thick-growing,
thick-leaved, thick-lipped,
thick-necked, thick-planted,
thick-ribbed, thick-shelled,
thick-woven, and the like.
Thick register. (Phon.) See the
Note under Register, n., 7. --
Thick stuff (Naut.), all plank that is
more than four inches thick and less than twelve. J.
Knowles.
<-- Thick-skulled, thick-headed. Stupid, slow to learn.
[derogatory] -->
Syn. -- Dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse.
Thick, n. 1. The thickest part,
or the time when anything is thickest.
In the thick of the dust and smoke.
Knolles.
2. A thicket; as, gloomy
thicks. [Obs.]
Drayton.
Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.
Spenser.
He through a little window cast his sight
Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
Dryden.
Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a
fiddle block. See under Fiddle. -- Through
thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties,
both great and small.
Through thick and thin she followed him.
Hudibras.
He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin,
of a military frenzy.
Coleridge.
Thick (?), adv. [AS.
.] 1. Frequently; fast;
quick.
2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick
sown.
3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than
usual; as, land covered thick with
manure.
Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or
in great numbers. [Obs.]
L'Estrange.
Thick, v. t. & i. [Cf. AS.
.] To thicken.
[R.]
The nightmare Life-in-death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.
Coleridge.
Thick"bill` (?), n. The
bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]
Thick"en (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Thickened
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thickening.] To make thick (in any
sense of the word). Specifically: --
(a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to
thicken paint.
(b) To make close; to fill up interstices in;
as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of
trees or men.
(c) To strengthen; to confirm.
[Obs.]
And this may to thicken other proofs.
Shak.
(d) To make more frequent; as, to
thicken blows.
Thick"en, v. i. To become thick.
\'bdThy luster thickens when he shines by.\'b8
Shak.
The press of people thickens to the court.
Dryden.
The combat thickens, like the storm that flies.
Dryden.
Thick"en*ing, n. Something put into a
liquid or mass to make it thicker.
Thick"et (?), n. [AS.
. See Thick, a.]
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set;
as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Gen. xxii. 13.
Thick"head` (?), n. 1.
A thick-headed or stupid person.
[Colloq.]
2. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species
of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala.
The males of some of the species are bright-colored. Some of the
species are popularly called thrushes.
Thick"-head`ed, a. Having a thick skull;
stupid.
Thick"ish, a. Somewhat thick.
Thick"-knee` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A stone curlew. See under
Stone.
Thick"ly, adv. In a thick manner;
deeply; closely.
Thick"ness, n. [AS.
.] The quality or state of being
thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Thick"set` (?), a. 1.
Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a
thickset hedge.
Dryden.
2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
Thick"set`, n. 1. A close or
thick hedge.
2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian
corduroy, or velveteen.
McElrath.
Thick"skin` (?), n. A coarse,
gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a
dullard.
Thick"-skinned` (?), a. Having
a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.
Holland.
Thick"skull` (?), n. A dullard,
or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull.
Entick.
Thick"-skulled` (?), a. Having
a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
Thick" wind` (?). (Far.) A
defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise
in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
Thick"-wind`ed, a. (Far.)
Affected with thick wind.
Thid"er (?), adv.
Thither. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thid"er*ward (?), adv.
Thitherward. [Obs.]
Thief (?), n.; pl.
Thieves (#). [OE. thef,
theef, AS. ; akin to OFries.
thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D.
dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel.
, Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv,
Goth. , , and perhaps to
Lith. tupeti to squat or crouch down. Cf.
Theft.] 1. One who steals; one who
commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
There came a privy thief, men clepeth death.
Chaucer.
Where thieves break through and steal.
Matt. vi. 19.
2. A waster in the snuff of a candle.
Bp. Hall.
Thief catcher. Same as Thief
taker. -- Thief leader, one who leads or
takes away a thief. L'Estrange. -- Thief
taker, one whose business is to find and capture
thieves and bring them to justice. -- Thief tube,
a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask.
-- Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar
for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves,
by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in
the great plague at London. [Eng.]
Syn. -- Robber; pilferer. -- Thief,
Robber. A thief takes our property by
stealth; a robber attacks us openly, and strips us by
main force.
Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by
night.
Shak.
Some roving robber calling to his fellows.
Milton.
Thief"ly, a. & adv. Like a thief;
thievish; thievishly. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thi"\'89*none (?), n.
[Thi\'89nyl + ketone.]
(Chem.) A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained
as a white crystalline substance, (C4H3S)2.CO,
by the action of aluminium chloride and carbonyl chloride on
thiophene.
Thi"\'89*nyl (?), n.
[Thiophene + -yl.]
(Chem.) The hypothetical radical
C4H3S, regarded as the essential residue of
thiophene and certain of its derivatives.
Thieve (?), v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Thieved
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thieving.] [AS.
ge.] To practice theft; to
steal.
Thiev"er*y (?), n. 1.
The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally
good and honest.
South.
2. That which is stolen. [Obs.]
Shak.
Thiev"ish, a. 1. Given to
stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a
thievish magpie.
2. Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly;
secret.
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Shak.
3. Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished
by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish
practice.
Or with a base and biosterous sword enforce
A thievish living on the common road.
Shak.
-- Thiev"ish*ly, adv. --
Thiev"ish*ness, n.
Thigh (?), n. [OE.
thi, , , AS.
; akin to OFries. thiach, D.
dij, dije, OHG. dioh,
thioh, Icel. thigh, rump, and
probably to Lith. taukas fat of animals,
tuk to become fat, Russ. tuke fat of
animals. \'fb56.] 1. (Anat.) The
proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk.
See Femur.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The coxa, or femur, of an
insect.
Thigh bone (Anat.), the
femur.
Thilk (?), pron. [Cf.
Ilk same.] That same; this; that.
[Obs.] \'bdI love thilk lass.\'b8
Spenser.
Thou spake right now of thilke traitor death.
Chaucer.
Thill (?), n. [OE.
thille, AS. a board, plank, beam,
thill; akin to a plank, D. deel a
plank, floor, G. diele, OHG. dili,
dilla, Icel. a plank, planking, a
thwart, a wainscot, plank; cf. Skr.
tala a level surface. \'fb236. Cf. Fill a
thill, Deal a plank.] 1. One of the
two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between
which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
2. (Mining) The floor of a coal
mine.
Raymond.
Thill coupling, a device for connecting the
thill of a vehicle to the axle.
Thill"er (?), n. The horse
which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them;
also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill
horse.
Thim"ble (?), n. [OE.
thimbil, AS. , fr.
a thumb. \'fb56. See Thumb.]
1. A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad
ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the
finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is
usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous
small pits to catch the head of the needle.
2. (Mech.) Any thimble-shaped appendage
or fixure. Specifically: -- (a) A tubular
piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin
passes. (b) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or
lining placed in a hole. (c) A tubular cone
for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in
England.
3. (Naut.) A ring of thin metal formed
with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or
the like, and protect it from chafing.
Thim"ble*ber`ry (?), n.
(Bot.) A kind of black raspberry (Rubus
occidentalis), common in America.
Thim"ble*eye` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The chub mackerel. See under
Chub.
Thim"ble*ful (?), n.; pl.
Thimblefuls (. As much as a
thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful
of love.
Dryden.
Thim"ble*rig` (?), n. A
sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like
thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
Thim"ble*rig`, v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Thimblerigged (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Thimblerigging.] To
swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small
ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the
victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence,
to cheat by any trick.
Thim"ble*rig`ger (?), n. One
who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
Thim"ble*weed` (?), n.
(Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus
Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the
sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.
Thin (?), a.
[Compar. Thiner (?);
superl. Thinest.] [OE.
thinne, thenne, thunne, AS.
; akin to D. dun, G.
d\'81nn, OHG. dunni, Icel.
, Sw. tunn, Dan.
tynd, Gael. & Ir. tana, W.
teneu, L. tenuis, Gr. tanu thin, slender; also to AS. to
extend, G. dehnen, Icel. , Goth.
(in comp.), L. tendere to stretch,
tenere to hold, Gr. tan. \'fb51 & 237. Cf. Attenuate,
Dance, Tempt, Tenable, Tend
to move, Tenous, Thunder, Tone.]
1. Having little thickness or extent from one
surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal;
thin paper; a thin board; a thin
covering.
2. Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids
or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin
broth; thin air.
Shak.
In the day, when the air is more thin.
Bacon.
Satan, bowing low
His gray dissimulation, disappeared,
Into thin air diffused.
Milton.
3. Not close; not crowded; not filling the space;
not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a
close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of
a forest are thin; the corn or grass is
thin.
Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of
people.
Addison.
4. Not full or well grown; wanting in
plumpness.
Seven thin ears . . . blasted with the east
wind.
Gen. xli. 6.
5. Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a
person becomes thin by disease.
6. Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not
full.
Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.
Dryden.
7. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting
substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not
sufficient for a covering; as, a thin
disguise.
My tale is done, for my wit is but thin.
Chaucer.
Thin is used in the formation of
compounds which are mostly self-explaining; as,
thin-faced, thin-lipped,
thin-peopled, thin-shelled, and the
like.
Thin section. See under
Section.
Thin, adv. Not thickly or closely; in a
seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
Spain is thin sown of people.
Bacon.
Thin, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thinned (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Thinning.] [Cf. AS.
ge.] To make thin (in any of
the senses of the adjective).
Thin, v. i. To grow or become thin; --
used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.;
as, geological strata thin out, i. e.,
gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.
Thine (?), pron. & a. [OE.
thin, AS. , originally gen. of
, , thou; akin to G.
dein thine, Icel. , possessive
pron., , gen. of , possessive pron., ,
gen. of thou. See Thou, and cf.
Thy.] A form of the possessive case of the
pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by
your, the possessive of you, but
maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the
usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.
thine was commonly
shortened to thi (thy) when used
attributively before words beginning with a consonant; now,
thy is used also before vowels. Thine is
often used absolutely, the thing possessed being
understood.
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Thing (?), n. [AS.
a thing, cause, assembly, judicial
assembly; akin to to negotiate,
to reconcile, conciliate, D.
ding a thing, OS. thing thing, assembly,
judicial assembly, G. ding a thing, formerly also, an
assembly, court, Icel. a thing, assembly,
court, Sw. & Dan. ting; perhaps originally used of the
transaction of or before a popular assembly, or the time
appointed for such an assembly; cf. G. dingen to
bargain, hire, MHG. dingen to hold court, speak before
a court, negotiate, Goth. time, perhaps
akin to L. tempus time. Cf. Hustings, and
Temporal of time.] 1. Whatever
exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether
animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of
thought.
God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind.
Gen. i. 25.
He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good
things of Egypt.
Gen. xiv. 23.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Keats.
2. An inanimate object, in distinction from a
living being; any lifeless material.
Ye meads and groves, unsonscious things!
Cowper.
3. A transaction or occurrence; an event; a
deed.
[And Jacob said] All these things are against
me.
Gen. xlii. 36.
Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what
authority I do these things.
Matt. xxi. 24.
4. A portion or part; something.
Wieked men who understand any thing of wisdom.
Tillotson.
5. A diminutive or slighted object; any object
viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or
contempt.
See, sons, what things you are!
Shak.
The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from
me.
Addison.
I'll be this abject thing no more.
Granville.
I have a thing in prose.
Swift.
6. pl. Clothes; furniture;
appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's
things. [Colloq.]
And them she gave her moebles and her thing.
Chaucer.
Thing was used in a very general sense in
Old English, and is still heard colloquially where some more
definite term would be used in careful composition.
In the garden [he] walketh to and fro,
And hath his things [i. e., prayers,
devotions] said full courteously.
Chaucer.
Hearkening his minstrels their things play.
Chaucer.
7. (Law) Whatever may be possessed or
owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.
8. [In this sense pronounced
t In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or
judicial assembly.
Longfellow.
Things personal. (Law) Same as
Personal property, under Personal. --
Things real. Same as Real property,
under Real.
Think (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Thought
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thinking.] [OE. thinken,
properly, to seem, from AS. (cf.
Methinks), but confounded with OE. thenken to
think, fr. AS. (imp.
); akin to D. denken,
dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian,
G. denken, d\'81nken, Icel.
to perceive, to know,
to seem, Goth. ,
, to think, to
think, to seem, OL. tongere to know. Cf.
Thank, Thought.] 1. To seem
or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions
methinketh or methinks, and
methought.
<-- structurally similar to Russ. mne kazhetsya -->
it seems to me, it seemed to
me. In these expressions me is in the dative
case.
2. To employ any of the intellectual powers except
that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the
higher intellectual faculties.
For that I am
I know, because I think.
Dryden.
3. Specifically: -- (a) To call anything
to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I
did not think of it.
Well thought upon; I have it here.
Shak.
(b) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to
meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
And when he thought thereon, he wept.
Mark xiv. 72.
He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do,
because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
Luke xii. 17.
(c) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to
conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain
to-morrow.
Let them marry to whom they think best.
Num. xxxvi. 6.
(d) To purpose; to intend; to design; to
mean.
I thought to promote thee unto great honor.
Num. xxiv. 11.
Thou thought'st to help me.
Shak.
(e) To presume; to venture.
Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham
to our father.
Matt. iii. 9.
To think, in a philosophical use as yet
somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the
acts pre\'89minently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason.
Thinking is employed by Hamilton as \'bdcomprehending all our
collective energies.\'b8 It is defined by Mansel as \'bdthe act
of knowing or judging by means of concepts,\'b8by Lotze as
\'bdthe reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external
influences.\'b8 See Thought.
To think better of. See under
Better. -- To think much of, To think well of, to hold in esteem; to
esteem highly.
Syn. -- To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder;
contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See
Expect, Guess.
Think, v. t. 1. To conceive; to
imagine.
Charity . . . thinketh no evil.
1 Cor. xiii. 4,5.
2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
[Obs.]
So little womanhood
And natural goodness, as to think the death
Of her own son.
Beau. & Fl.
3. To believe; to consider; to esteem.
Nor think superfluous other's aid.
Milton.
To think much, to esteem a great matter; to
grudge. [Obs.] \'bd[He] thought not
much to clothe his enemies.\'b8 Milton.
-- To think scorn. (a) To disdain.
[Obs.] \'bdHe thought scorn to lay hands
on Mordecai alone.\'b8 Esther iii. 6. (b)
To feel indignation. [Obs.]
Think"a*ble (?), a. Capable of
being thought or conceived; cogitable.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Think"er (?), n. One who
thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular
manner; as, a close thinker; a deep
thinker; a coherent thinker.
Think"ing, a. Having the faculty of
thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as,
man is a thinking being. --
Think"ing*ly, adv.
Think"ing, n. The act of thinking; mode
of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
Shak.
Thin"ly (?), a. In a thin
manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly;
as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country
thinly inhabited.
Thin"ner (?), n. One who thins,
or makes thinner.
<-- 2. A solvent used to thin a viscous liquid, as a paint
thinner. -->
Thin"ness, n. The quality or state of
being thin (in any of the senses of the word).
Thin"nish (?), a. Somewhat
thin.
Thin"o*lite (?), n. [Gr. -lite.] (Min.) A
calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale
as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of
Nevada.
Thin"-skinned` (?), a. Having a
thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.
Thi"o- (?). [Gr. (Chem.) A combining form (also
used adjectively) denoting the presence of sulphur.
See Sulpho-.
Thi`o*car"bon*ate (?), n.
(Chem.) A sulphocarbonate.
Thi`o*car*bon"ic (?), a.
[Thio- + carbonic.]
(Chem.) Same as Sulphocarbonic.
Thi`o*cy"a*nate (?), n.
(Chem.) Same as Sulphocyanate.
Thi`o*cy*an"ic (?), a.
[Thio- + cyanic.]
(Chem.) Same as Sulphocyanic.
Thi`o*naph"thene (?), n.
[Thiophene +
naphthalene.] (Chem.)
A double benzene and thiophene nucleus,
C8H6S, analogous to naphthalene, and like it the
base of a large series of derivatives. [Written also
thionaphtene.]
Thi*on"ic (?), a. [Gr. (Chem.) Of or
pertaining to sulphur; containing or resembling sulphur;
specifically, designating certain of the thio compounds; as,
the thionic acids. Cf. Dithionic,
Trithionic, Tetrathionic, etc.
Thi"on*ine (?), n. [Gr. (Chem.) An artificial
red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulphur derivative
of certain aromatic diamines, and obtained as a dark crystalline
powder; -- called also phenylene violet.
Thi"on*ol (?), n.
[Thionine + -ol.]
(Chem.) A red or violet dyestuff having a
greenish metallic luster. It is produced artificially, by the
chemical dehydration of thionine, as a brown amorphous
powder.
Thi*on"o*line (?), n.
(Chem.) A beautiful fluorescent crystalline
substance, intermediate in composition between thionol and
thionine.
Thi"on*yl (?), n.
[Thionic + -yl.]
(Chem.) The hypothetical radical
SO, regarded as an essential constituent of
certain sulphurous compounds; as, thionyl
chloride.
Thi"o*phene (?), n.
[Thio- + phenyl +
-ene.] (Chem.) A sulphur
hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and
benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances
which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic
derivatives.
Thi`o*phen"ic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from,
thiophene; specifically, designating a certain acid analogous to
benzoic acid.
Thi`o*phe"nol (?), n.
[Thio- + phenol.]
(Chem.) A colorless mobile liquid,
C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to
phenol; -- called also phenyl
sulphydrate.
Thi*oph"thene (?), n.
[Abbreviated from
thionaphthene.] (Chem.)
A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2,
analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of
compounds. [Written also
thiophtene.]
Thi`o*sul"phate (?), n.
(Chem.) A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly
called hyposulphite.
sodium hyposulphite, being used as a solvent for the
excess of unchanged silver chloride, bromide, and iodide on the
sensitive plate.
Thi`o*sul*phur"ic (?), a.
[Thio- + sulphuric.]
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an
unstable acid, H2S2O3, analogous to sulphuric
acid, and formerly called hyposulphurous
acid.
Thi`o*to"lene (?), n.
[Thio- + toluene.]
(Chem.) A colorless oily liquid,
C4H3S.CH3, analogous to, and resembling,
toluene; -- called also methyl
thiophene.
Thi*ox"ene (?), n.
[Thiophene + xylene.]
(Chem.) Any one of three possible metameric
substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the
xylenes from benzene.
Third (?), a. [OE.
thirde, AS. , fr.
, , three; akin to D.
derde third, G. dritte, Icel.
, Goth. , L.
tertius, Gr. t. See
Three, and cf. Riding a jurisdiction,
Tierce.] 1. Next after the second;
coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the
thirdhour in the day. \'bdThe
third night.\'b8
Chaucer.
2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts
into which anything is divided; as, the third part
of a day.
Third estate. (a) In England, the
commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by
the House of Commons. (b) In France, the tiers
\'82tat. See Tiers \'82tat. Third order
(R. C. Ch.), an order attached to a monastic
order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious
living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain
seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See
Tertiary, n., 1. -- Third
person (Gram.), the person spoken of. See
Person, n., 7. -- Third
sound. (Mus.) See Third,
n., 3.
Third (?), n. 1. The
quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts
into which anything is divided.
2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.
3. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale;
the mediant.
4. pl. (Law) The third part
of the estate of a deseased husband, which, by some local laws,
the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
Major third (Mus.), an interval of
two tones. -- Minor third (Mus.),
an interval of a tone and a half.
Third"-bor`ough (?), n. (O.
Eng. Law) An under constable.
Shak. Johnson.
Third"ings (?), n. pl. (Eng.
Law) The third part of the corn or grain growing on
the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot,
as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
Third"ly, adv. In the third place.
Bacon.
Third"-pen`ny (?), n. (A.S.
Law) A third part of the profits of fines and
penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the
perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
Thirl (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Thirled
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thirling.] [See Thrill.]
To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill.
[Obs. or Prov.]
That with a spear was thirled his breast bone.
Chaucer.
Thirl"age (?), n. [Cf.
Thrall.] (Scots Law) The right
which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to
compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to
bring all their grain to his mill for grinding.
Erskine.
Thirst (?), n. [OE.
thirst, , AS.
, ; akin to D.
dorst, OS. thurst, G. durst,
Icel. , Sw. & Dan. t\'94rst,
Goth. thirst,
dry, withered,
I thirst,
ga to wither, L. torrere to
parch, Gr. te`rsesqai to become dry,
tesai`nein to dry up, Skr. t to
thirst. \'fb54. Cf. Torrid.] 1. A
sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for
liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause
(as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the
pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this
sensation.
Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt,
to kill us, and our children . . . with thirst?
Ex. xvii. 3.
With thirst, with cold, with hunger so
confounded.
Chaucer.
2. Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a
craving or longing; -- usually with for,
of, or after; as, the thirst
for gold. \'bdThirst of worldy good.\'b8
Fairfax. \'bdThe thirst I had of
knowledge.\'b8 Milton.
Thirst, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thirsted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Thirsting.] [AS. .
See Thirst, n.] 1. To
feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the
throat or fauces, as for want of drink.
The people thirsted there for water.
Ex. xvii. 3.
2. To have a vehement desire.
My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God.
Ps. xlii. 2.
Thirst, v. t. To have a thirst
for. [R.]
He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his
blood.
Prior.
Thirst"er (?), n. One who
thirsts.
Thirst"i*ly (?), adv. In a
thirsty manner.
Thirst"i*ness, n. The state of being
thirsty; thirst.
Thirs"tle (?), n. The
throstle. [Prov. Eng.]
Thirst"y (?), a.
[Compar. Thirstier (?);
superl. Thirstiest.] [AS.
. See Thirst, n.]
1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing
sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager
desire.
Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am
thirsty.
Judges iv. 19.
2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.
A dry and thirsty land, where no water is.
Ps. lxiii. 1.
When in the sultry glebe I faint,
Or on the thirsty mountain pant.
Addison.
Thir"teen` (?), a. [OE.
threttene, AS. ,
. See Three, and Ten,
and cf. Thirty.] One more than twelve; ten
and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.
Thir"teen`, n. 1. The number
greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen
units or objects.
2. A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or
xiii.
Thir"teenth` (?), a. [From
Thirteen: cf. AS. .]
1. Next in order after the twelfth; the third after
the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the
thirteenth day of the month.
2. Constituting or being one of thirteen equal
parts into which anything is divided.
Thir"teenth`, n. 1. The
quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal
parts into which anything is divided.
2. The next in order after the twelfth.
3. (Mus.) The interval comprising an
octave and a sixth.
Thir"ti*eth (?), a. [From
Thirty: cf. AS.
.] 1.
Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the
twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the
thirtieth day of the month.
2. Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts
into which anything is divided.
Thir"ti*eth, n. The quotient of a unit
divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.
Thir"ty (?), a. [OE.
thritty, AS. \'edr\'c6tig,
\'edrittig; akin to D. dertig, G.
dreissig, Icel. \'edrj\'bet\'c6u,
\'edrj\'betigi, \'edrir teger, Goth.
\'edreis tigjus, i.e., three tens. See Three,
and Ten, and cf. Thirteen.] Being three times
ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten;
as, the month of June consists of thirty
days.
<-- p. 1500 -->
<-- p. 1500 -->
Thir"ty (?), n.; pl.
Thirties (. 1. The
sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or
objects.
2. A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.
Thir"ty-sec`ond (?), a. Being
one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is
divided.
Thirty-second note (Mus.), the
thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.
This (?), pron. & a.; pl.
These (#). [OE. this,
thes, AS. \'eb\'c7s, masc.,
\'ebe\'a2s, fem., \'ebis, neut.; akin to
OS. these, D. deze, G. dieser,
OHG. diser, deser, Icel.
\'edessi; originally from the definite article + a
particle -se, -si; cf. Goth. sai
behold. See The, That, and cf. These,
Those.] 1. As a demonstrative
pronoun, this denotes something that is present or
near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is
just about to be mentioned.
When they heard this, they were pricked in their
heart.
Acts ii. 37.
But know this, that if the good man of the house
had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have
watched.
Matt. xxiv. 43.
2. As an adjective, this has the same
demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun;
as, this book; this way to town.
This may be used as opposed or
correlative to that, and sometimes as opposed to
other or to a second this. See the Note
under That, 1.
This way and that wavering sails they
bend.
Pope.
A body of this or that denomination is
produced.
Boyle.
Their judgment in this we may not, and in
that we need not, follow.
Hooker.
Consider the arguments which the author had to write
this, or to design the other, before you
arraign him.
Dryden.
Thy crimes . . . soon by this or this
will end.
Addison.
This, like a,
every, that, etc., may refer to a number,
as of years, persons, etc., taken collectively or as a
whole.
This twenty years have I been with thee..
Gen. xxxi. 38.
I have not wept this years; but now
My mother comes afresh into my eyes.
Dryden.
This"tle (?), n. [OE.
thistil, AS. ; akin to D. & G.
distel, OHG. distila, distil,
Icel. , Sw. tistel, Dan.
tidsel; of uncertain origin.] (Bot.)
Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially
those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and
Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other
prickly plants.
Blessed thistle, Carduus benedictus,
so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the
bite of venomous creatures. -- Bull thistle,
Cnicus lanceolatus, the common large thistle of
neglected pastures. -- Canada thistle,
Cnicus arvensis, a native of Europe, but
introduced into the United States from Canada. --
Cotton thistle, Onopordon
Acanthium. -- Fuller's thistle, the
teasel. -- Globe thistle, Melon
thistle, etc. See under Globe,
Melon, etc. -- Pine thistle,
Atractylis gummifera, a native of the
Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the
involucre. -- Scotch thistle, either the
cotton thistle, or the musk thistle, or the spear thistle; -- all
used national emblems of Scotland. -- Sow
thistle, Sonchus oleraceus. --
Spear thistle. Same as Bull thistle.
-- Star thistle, a species of
Centaurea. See Centaurea. -- Torch
thistle, a candelabra-shaped plant of the genus Cereus.
See Cereus. -- Yellow thistle,
Cincus horridulus.
Thistle bird (Zo\'94l.), the
American goldfinch, or yellow-bird (Spinus tristis);
-- so called on account of its feeding on the seeds of thistles.
See Illust. under Goldfinch. --
Thistle butterfly (Zo\'94l.), a
handsomely colored American butterfly (Vanessa cardui)
whose larva feeds upon thistles; -- called also painted
lady. -- Thistle cock
(Zo\'94l.), the corn bunting (Emberiza
militaria). [Prov. Eng.] -- Thistle
crown, a gold coin of England of the reign of James I.,
worth four shillings. -- Thistle finch
(Zo\'94l.), the goldfinch; -- so called from its
fondness for thistle seeds. [Prov. Eng.] --
Thistle funnel, a funnel having a bulging body and
flaring mouth.
This"tly (?), a. 1.
Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly
ground.
2. Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp;
pricking.
In such a world, so thorny, and where none
Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found,
Without some thistly sorrow at its side.
Cowper.
Thith"er (?), adv. [OE.
thider, AS. ; akin to E.
that; cf. Icel. there,
Goth. thence. See That,
and The.] 1. To that place; --
opposed to hither.
This city is near; . . . O, let me escape
thither.
Gen. xix. 20.
Where I am, thither ye can not come.
John vii. 34.
2. To that point, end, or result; as, the
argument tended thither.
Hither and thither, to this place and to that;
one way and another.
Syn. -- There. Thither,
There. Thither properly denotes motion toward
a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am
going thither, and shall meet you there.
But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry,
or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there
is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there
to-morrow; we shall go there together.
Thith"er (?), a. 1.
Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther;
-- a correlative of hither; as, on the
thither side of the water.
W. D. Howells.
2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older
than; of more years than. See Hither,
a.
Huxley.
Thith"er*to` (?), adv. To that
point; so far. [Obs.]
Thith"er*ward (?), adv. To ward
that place; in that direction.
They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces
thitherward.
Jer. l. 5.
Thit"see (?), n. [Written also
theesee, and thietsie.] 1.
(Bot.) The varnish tree of Burmah
(Melanorrh\'d2a usitatissima).
2. A black varnish obtained from the tree.
\'d8Thlip"sis (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. (Med.)
Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an
external cause.
Tho (, def. art.
The. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Tho, pron. pl. Those.
[Obs.]
This knowen tho that be to wives bound.
Chaucer.
Tho, adv. [AS.
.] Then.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
To do obsequies as was tho the guise.
Chaucer.
Tho, conj. Though. [Reformed
spelling.]
Thole (?), n. [Written also
thowel, and thowl.] [OE.
thol, AS. ; akin to D.
dol, Icel. a fir tree, a young
fir, a tree, a thole.] 1. A wooden or metal
pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the
oar in rowing.
Longfellow.
2. The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.
Thole pin. Same as Thole.
Thole, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tholed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tholing.] [OE. ,
, AS. ; akin to OS.
thol\'d3n, OHG. dol\'c7n, G.
geduld patience, dulden to endure, Icel.
, Sw. t\'86la, Dan.
taale, Goth. , L.
tolerate, tulisse, to endure, bear,
tollere to lift, bear, Gr. tul to lift. \'fb55. Cf. Tolerate.]
To bear; to endure; to undergo. [Obs. or
Scot.]
Gower.
So much woe as I have with you tholed.
Chaucer.
To thole the winter's steely dribble.
Burns.
Thole, v. i. To wait. [Prov.
Eng. & Scot.]
{ Tho*m\'91"an, Tho*me"an}
(?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) A
member of the ancient church of Christians established on the
Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been
originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.
{ Tho"mism (?), Tho"ma*ism
(?), } n. (Eccl. Hist.)
The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to
predestination and grace.
Tho"mist (?), n. (Eccl.
Hist.) A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See
Scotist.
Tho"mite (?), n. (Eccl.
Hist.) A Thom\'91an.
Thom"sen*o*lite (?), n. [Named
after Dr. J.Thomsen of Copenhagen. See
-lite.] (Min.) A fluoride of
aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of
Greenland.
Thom"sen's dis*ease" (?). [From
Thomsen, a physician of Sleswick.]
(Med.) An affection apparently congenital,
consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary
muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.
Thom*so"ni*an (?), a.
(Med.) Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism.
-- n. A believer in Thomsonianism; one who
practices Thomsonianism.
Thom*so"ni*an*ism (?), n.
(Med.) An empirical system which assumes that the
human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and
water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from
the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of
Massachusetts.
Thom"son*ite (?), n. [From
R.D.Thomson, of Glasgow.] (Min.)
A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a
radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime,
and soda. Called also mesole, and
comptonite.
Thong (?), n. [OE.
thong, , thwang, AS.
; akin to Icel. a
thong, latchet. \'fb57. Cf. Twinge.] A strap
of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.
And nails for loosened spears, and thongs for
shields, provide.
Dryden.
Thong seal (Zo\'94l.), the bearded
seal. See the Note under Seal.
Tho"oid (?), a. [Gr. -oid.] (Zo\'94l.) Of
or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and
the dogs.
Thor (?), n. [Icel.
. Cf. Thursday.]
(Scand. Myth.) The god of thunder, and son of
Odin.
\'d8Tho`ra*cen*te"sis (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr. (Surg.) The operation of puncturing
the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity
of the chest.
Tho*rac"ic (?), a. [Cf. F.
thoracique.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to the thorax, or chest.
Thoracic duct (Anat.), the great
trunk of the lymphatic vessels, situated on the ventral side of
the vertebral column in the thorax and abdomen. See
Illust. of Lacteal.
Tho*rac"ic, n. [Cf. F.
thoracique.] (Zo\'94l.) One of a
group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax
or beneath the pectorial fins.
\'d8Tho*rac"i*ca (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A division of
cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments,
usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are
examples.
Tho`ra*com"e*ter (?), n.
(Physiol.) Same as Stethometer.
Tho`ra*co*plas"ty (?), n.
[Thorax + plasty.]
(Med.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax;
especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to
obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.
\'d8Tho`ra*cos"tra*ca (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Thorax, and Ostracoid,
a.] (Zo\'94l.) An extensive
division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec
Tho`ra*cot"o*my (?), n. [Gr.
(Surg.) The
operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.
Tho"ral (?), a. [L.
torus a couch, bed.] Of or pertaining to a
bed. [R.]
Tho"rax (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
1. (Anat.) The part of the
trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of
the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal
vertebr\'91, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and
lungs are situated; the chest.
2. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The middle
region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the
legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of
which is composed of several distinct parts. See
Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of
Coleoptera. (b) The second, or
middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other
articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers
include under the term thorax only the three segments
bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments
bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.
3. (Antiq.) A breastplate, cuirass, or
corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient
Greeks.
Tho"ri*a (?), n. [NL. See
Thorite.] (Chem.) A rare white
earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly
called also thorina.
Thor"ic (?), a. (Chem.)
Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of
thorium.
Tho"rite (?), n. [So called by
Berzelius from the Scandinavian god Thor. See
Thor.] (Min.) A mineral of a brown
to black color, or, as in the variety orangite,
orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.
Tho"ri*um (?), n. [NL. See
Thorite.] (Chem.) A metallic
element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore,
monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder
which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also
thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight
232.0.
Thorn (?), n. [AS.
; akin to OS. & OFries. thorn, D.
doorn, G. dorn, Dan. torn, Sw.
t\'94rne, Icel. , Goth.
; cf. Pol. tarn, Russ.
tern' the blackthorn, ternie thorns, Skr.
t grass, blade of grass. \'fb53.]
1. A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody
stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
2. (Bot.) Any shrub or small tree which
bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crat\'91gus,
as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur
thorn.
3. Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn;
anything troublesome; trouble; care.
There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the
messenger of Satan to buffet me.
2 Cor. xii. 7.
The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares,
Be only mine.
Southern.
4. The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter th, as in thin, then. So called
because it was the initial letter of thorn, a
spine.
Thorn apple (Bot.), Jamestown
weed. -- Thorn broom (Bot.), a
shrub that produces thorns. -- Thorn hedge, a
hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes. -- Thorn
devil. (Zo\'94l.) See Moloch,
2. -- Thorn hopper (Zo\'94l.), a
tree hopper (Thelia crat\'91gi) which lives on the
thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.
Thorn, v. t. To prick, as with a
thorn. [Poetic]
I am the only rose of all the stock
That never thorn'd him.
Tennyson.
Thorn"back` (?), n. 1.
(Zo\'94l.) A European skate (Raia
clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The large European spider
crab or king crab (Maia squinado).
Thorn"bill` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of small,
brilliantly colored American birds of the genus
Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill,
and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar
cane.
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Thorn"bird` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A small South American bird
(Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the
genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex
nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.
Thorn"but (?), n.
[Thorn + -but as in
halibut; cf. G. dornbutt.]
(Zo\'94l.) The turbot.
Thorn"-head`ed (?), a. Having a
head armed with thorns or spines.
Thorn-headed worm (Zo\'94l.), any
worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also
thornhead.
Thorn"less, a. Destitute of, or free
from, thorns.
Thorn"set` (?), a. Set with
thorns.
Dyer.
Thorn"tail` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A beautiful South American humming
bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail
feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with
a long, pointed crest.
Thorn"y (?), a.
[Compar. Thornier (?);
superl. Thorniest.] [Cf. AS.
.] 1. Full of thorns
or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny
wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively,
troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. \'bdThe
thorny point of bare distress.\'b8
Shak.
The steep and thorny way to heaven.
Shak.
Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.),
rest-harrow. -- Thorny trefoil, a prickly
plant of the genus Fagonia (F. Cretica,
etc.).
Thor"o (?), a. Thorough.
[Reformed spelling.]
Thor"ough (?), prep. [See
Through.] Through. [Obs.]
Spenser. Shak.
Thor"ough, a. 1. Passing
through; as, thorough lights in a house.
[Obs.]
2. Passing through or to the end; hence, complete;
perfect; as, a thorough reformation;
thorough work; a thorough translator; a
thorough poet.
Thor"ough, adv. 1.
Thoroughly. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Chaucer.
2. Through. [Obs.]
Shak.
Thor"ough, n. A furrow between two
ridges, to drain off the surface water. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
Thor"ough bass` (?). (Mus.) The
representation of chords by figures placed under the base;
figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous
with harmony.
Thor"ough-brace` (?), n. A
leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to
springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of
Chaise.
Thor"ough*bred` (?), a. Bred
from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of
stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such
breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the
like. -- n. A thoroughbred animal,
especially a horse.
Thor"ough*fare` (?), n. [AS.
.] 1. A passage
through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an
unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a
frequented street.
A large and splendid thoroughfare.
Motley.
2. A passing or going through; passage.
[R.]
[Made] Hell and this world -- one realm, one continent
Of easy thoroughfare.
Milton.
Thor"ough*go`ing (?), a. 1.
Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough;
complete.
2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; --
less common in this sense.
Thor"ough-light`ed (?), a.
(Arch.) Provided with thorough lights or windows
at opposite sides, as a room or building.
Gwilt.
Thor"ough*ly, adv. In a thorough manner;
fully; entirely; completely.
Thor"ough*ness, n. The quality or state
of being thorough; completeness.
Thor"ough*paced` (?), a.
Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths;
as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig.
If she be a thoroughplaced impostor.
Sir W. Scott.
Thor"ough*pin` (?), n.
(Far.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the
knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane
and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; --
probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on
each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been
thrust through.
Thor"ough*sped` (?), a. Fully
accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.]
Swift.
Thor"ough*stitch` (?), adv. So
as to go the whole length of any business; fully;
completely. [Obs.]
Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch.
L'Estrange.
Thor"ough*wax` (?), n.
(Bot.) (a) An umbelliferous plant
(Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate
leaves. (b) Thoroughwort.
Thor"ough*wort` (?), n. Same as
Boneset.
Thor"ow (?), prep.
Through. [Obs.] \'bdThorow
bramble, pits, and floods.\'b8
Beau. & Fl.
Thor"ow, a. Thorough.
[Obs.]
Hakluyt.
{ Thorp, Thorpe}
(th, n. [AS.
; akin to OS. & OFries. thorp, D.
dorp, G. dorf, Icel. ,
Dan. torp, Sw. torp a cottage, a little
farm, Goth. a field, and probably to
Lith. troba a building, a house, W. tref a
hamlet, Ir. treabh a farmed village, a tribe, clan,
Gael. treabhair houses, and perhaps to L.
turba a crowd, mult. Cf. Dorp.] A
group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a
dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons;
as, Althorp, Mablethorpe.
\'bdWithin a little thorp I staid.\'b8
Fairfax.
Then thorpe and byre arose in fire.
Tennyson.
Those (?), pron. [OE.
, , AS.
, nom. and acc. pl. of
this. See This, and cf. These.] The
plural of that. See That.
\'d8Thoth (?), n. 1.
(Myth.) The god of eloquence and letters among
the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing
and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the
Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the
head of an ibis or a lamb.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The Egyptian sacred
baboon.
Thou (?), pron.
[Sing.: nom. Thou;
poss. Thy (?) or Thine
(; obj. Thee (?).
Pl.: nom. You (;
poss. Your (?) or Yours
(; obj. You.]
[OE. thou, , AS.
, ; akin to OS. & OFries.
thu, G., Dan. & Sw. du, Icel.
, Goth. , Russ.
tui, Ir. & Gael. tu, W. ti, L.
tu, Gr. sy`, Dor.
ty`, Skr. tvam.
\'fb185. Cf. Thee, Thine, Te
Deum.] The second personal pronoun, in the
singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the
pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or
poetical style.
Art thou he that should come?
Matt. xi. 3.
thou is
the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and
expresses also companionship, love, permission, defiance, scorn,
threatening: whilst ye is the language of a servant to
a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honor,
submission, or entreaty.\'b8
Skeat.
Thou is now sometimes used by the
Friends, or Quakers, in familiar discourse, though most of them
corruptly say thee instead of thou.
Thou, v. t. To address as
thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent
familiarity or contempt.
If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be
amiss.
Shak.
Thou, v. i. To use the words
thou and thee in discourse after the manner
of the Friends. [R.]
Though (, conj. [OE.
thogh, , AS.
, ,
; akin to OS. th\'d3h, OFries.
thach, D. & G. doch but, yet, OHG.
doh but, yet though, Icel. yet,
nevertheless, Sw. dock, Dan. dog, Goth.
, , than, or, yet;
of uncertain origin. \'fb184.] Granting, admitting, or
supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.
Job xiii. 15.
Not that I so affirm, though so it seem.
Milton.
all in
although. See Although.
As though, as if.
In the vine were three branches; and it was as
though it budded.
Gen. xl. 10.
Though, adv. However; nevertheless;
notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle
or at the end of a sentence.
I would not be as sick though for his place.
Shak.
A good cause would do well, though.
Dryden.
Thought (?), imp. & p. p. of
Think.
Thought, n. [OE. ,
, AS. ,
ge, fr. to
think; akin to D. gedachte thought, MHG.
d\'beht, ged\'beht, Icel.
, . See
Think.] 1. The act of thinking; the
exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection;
cogitation.
Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in
any sense to render it true that matter can become
cogitative.
Dr. T. Dwight.
2. Meditation; serious consideration.
Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought.
Roscommon.
3. That which is thought; an idea; a mental
conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or
intention.
Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his
thought.
Pope.
Why do you keep alone, . . .
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on?
Shak.
Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my
only difficulty is to choose or to reject.
Dryden.
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Ps. lvi. 5.
4. Solicitude; anxious care; concern.
Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and
anguish before his business came to an end.
Bacon.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat,
or what ye shall drink.
Matt. vi. 25.
5. A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a
thought longer; a thought better.
[Colloq.]
If the hair were a thought browner.
Shak.
Thought, in philosophical usage now
somewhat current, denotes the capacity for, or the exercise of,
the very highest intellectual functions, especially those usually
comprehended under judgment.
This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the
\'bdelaborative faculty,\'b8 -- the faculty of relations or
comparison, -- constitutes what is properly denominated
thought.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Syn. -- Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit;
notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation;
contemplation; cogitation; deliberation.
Thought"ful (?), a. 1.
Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative;
as, a man of thoughtful mind.
War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades.
Pope.
2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment;
having the mind directed to an object; as,
thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking
truth.
Glanvill.
3. Anxious; solicitous; concerned.
Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear,
And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care.
Prior.
Syn. -- Considerate; deliberate; contemplative; attentive;
careful; wary; circumspect; reflective; discreet.
-- Thoughtful, Considerate. He who is
habitually thoughtful rarely neglects his duty or his
true interest; he who is considerate pauses to reflect
and guard himself against error. One who is not
thoughtful by nature, if he can be made
considerate, will usually be guarded against serious
mistakes. \'bdHe who is thoughtful does not
forget his duty; he who is considerate pauses, and
considers properly what is his duty. It is a
recommendation to a subordinate person to be
thoughtful in doing what is wished of him; it is the
recommendation of a confidential person to be
considerate, as he has often
Crabb.
-- Thought"ful*ly, adv. --
hought"ful*ness, n.
Thought"less, adv. 1. Lacking
thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a
thoughtless person, or act.
2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. [R.]
Johnson.
3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid;
dull.
Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the
plain.
Dryden.
-- Thought"less*ly, adv. --
Thought"less*ness, n.
Thou"sand (?), n. [OE.
, , AS.
; akin to OS.
th, th, OFries.
thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend,
OHG. t, d, Icel.
, , Sw.
tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth.
, Lith. tukstantis, Russ.
tuisiacha; of uncertain origin.] 1.
The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of
ten times one hundred units or objects.
2. Hence, indefinitely, a great number.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand.
Ps. xci. 7.
thousand often takes a plural
form. See the Note under Hundred.
3. A symbol representing one thousand units;
as, 1,000, M or CI.
Thou"sand, a. 1. Consisting of
ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.
2. Hence, consisting of a great number
indefinitely. \'bdPerplexed with a thousand
cares.\'b8
Shak.
Thou"sand*fold` (?), a.
Multiplied by a thousand.
Thou"sand legs` (?). (Zo\'94l.)
A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also
thousand-legged worm.
Thou"sandth (?), a. 1.
Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last
of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of
thousand; as, the thousandth part of a
thing.
2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal
parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a
hundredth.
3. Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a
very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically;
as, to do a thing for the thousandth
time.
Thou"sandth, n. The quotient of a unit
divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a
unit is divided.
{ Thow"el (?), Thowl
(?), } n. [See
Thole.] (Naut.) (a) A
thole pin. (b) A rowlock.
I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount
of noise the oars worked in the thowels.
Dickens.
Thra"cian (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Thrace, or its people. -- n.
A native or inhabitant of Thrace.
Thrack (?), v. t. To load or
burden; as, to thrack a man with
property. [Obs.]
South.
Thrack"scat (?), n. Metal still
in the mine. [Obs.]
Thral"dom (?), n. [Icel.
. See Thrall, and
-dom.] The condition of a thrall; slavery;
bondage; state of servitude. [Written also
thralldom.]
Women are born to thraldom and penance
And to be under man's governance.
Chaucer.
He shall rule, and she in thraldom live.
Dryden.
Thrall (?), n. [OE.
thral, , Icel. ,
perhaps through AS. ; akin to Sw.
tr\'84l, Dan. tr\'91l, and probably to AS.
to run, Goth. , Gr.
dregil, drigil, a
servant.] 1. A slave; a bondman.
Chaucer.
Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric.
Sir W. Scott.
2. Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom.
Tennyson.
He still in thrall
Of all-subdoing sleep.
Chapman.
3. A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
[Prov. Eng.]
Thrall, a. Of or pertaining to a thrall;
in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
The fiend that would make you thrall and bond.
Chaucer.
Thrall, v. t. To enslave.
[Obs. or Poetic]
Spenser.
Thrall"dom (?), n.
Thraldom.
Thrall"-less, a. (a) Having no
thralls. (b) Not enslaved; not subject to
bonds.
Thrall"-like` (?), a.
Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the
like; slavish.
Servile and thrall-like fear.
Milton.
Thra"nite (?), n. [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.) One of
the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a
trireme.
Thrap"ple (?), n. [Also
thropple, corrupted fr. throttle.]
Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
{ Thrash (?), Thresh (?)
}, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Thrashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thrashing.] [OE. ,
, to beat, AS. ,
; akin to D. dorschen, OD.
derschen, G. dreschen, OHG.
dreskan, Icel. , Sw.
tr\'94ska, Dan. t\'91rske, Goth.
, Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ.
treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash,
OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf.
Thresh.] 1. To beat out grain from,
as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a
flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to
thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the
old straw.
The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by
machines.
H. Spencer.
2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to
drub.
{ Thrash, Thresh}, v. t.
1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to
perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man
who thrashes well.
2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move
violently.
I rather would be M\'91vius, thrash for rhymes,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
Dryden.
Thrash"el (?), n. An instrument
to thrash with; a flail. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
{ Thrash"er (?), Thresh"er
(?) }, n. 1. One who, or
that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A large and voracious
shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great
length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or
thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the
European coasts. Called also fox shark,
sea ape, sea fox,
slasher, swingle-tail, and
thrasher shark.
3. (Zo\'94l.) A name given to the brown
thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. (Zo\'94l.) See under
Sage. -- Thrasher whale
(Zo\'94l.), the common killer of the
Atlantic.
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Thrash"ing (?), a. & n. from
Thrash, v.
Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor,
Threshing floor, a floor or area on
which grain is beaten out. -- Thrashing machine,
a machine for separating grain from the straw.
Thra*son"ic*al (?), a. [From
Thrso, the name of a braggart soldier in Terence's
\'bdEunuch:\'b8 cf. L. Thrasonianus.] Of or
pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging;
boastful; vainglorious. --
Thra*son"ic*al*ly,
adv.
C\'91sar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and
overcame.'
Shak.
Thraste (?), v. t.
[imp. Thraste; p. p.
Thrast.] To thrust.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thrave (?), n. [OE.
, , Icel. ;
akin to Dan. trave; cf. Icel. to
grasp.] 1. Twenty-four (in some places,
twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook. [Prov.
Eng.]
2. The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite
number; a bunch; a company; a throng. \'bdThe worst of a
thrave.\'b8 [Obs.]
Landsdowne MS.
He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale.
Bp. Hall.
Thraw (?), n. & v. See
Throse. [Scot.]
Burns.
Thread (?), n. [OE.
threed, , AS. ;
akin to D. draad, G. draht wire, thread,
OHG. dr\'bet, Icel. a thread,
Sw. tr\'86d, Dan. traad, and AS.
to twist. See Throw, and cf.
Third.] 1. A very small twist of
flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out
to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more
single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
2. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous
substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or
nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
4. Fig.: Something continued in a long course or
tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a
discourse.
Bp. Burnet.
5. Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
[Obs.]
A neat courtier,
Of a most elegant thread.
B. Jonson.
Air thread, the fine white filaments which are
seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders;
gossamer. -- Thread and thrum, the good and
bad together. [Obs.] Shak. --
Thread cell (Zo\'94l.), a lasso cell.
See under Lasso. -- Thread herring
(Zo\'94l.), the gizzard shad. See under
Gizzard. -- Thread lace, lace made
of linen thread. -- Thread needle, a game in
which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the
outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others;
-- called also thread the needle.
Thread, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Threaded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Threading.] 1. To pass a
thread through the eye of; as, to thread a
needle.
2. To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also,
to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to
thrid.
Heavy trading ships . . . threading the
Bosphorus.
Mitford.
They would not thread the gates.
Shak.
3. To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in;
as, to thread a screw or nut.
Thread"bare` (?), a. 1.
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off;
threadbare clothes. \'bdA threadbare
cope.\'b8
Chaucer.
2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare
subject; stale topics and threadbare
quotations.
Swift.
Thread"bare`ness, n. The state of being
threadbare.
Thread"en (?), a. Made of
thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden
fillet. [Obs.]
Shak.
Thread"er (?), n. 1. A
device for assisting in threading a needle.
2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a
screw or in a nut.
Thread"fin` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of fishes
belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have
numerous long pectoral filaments.
Thread"fish` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) (a) The cutlass fish.
(b) A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or
C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft
dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
Thread"i*ness (?), n. Quality
of being thready.
Thread"-shaped` (?), a. Having
the form of a thread; filiform.
Thread"worm` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any long, slender nematode worm,
especially the pinworm and filaria.
Thread"y (?), a. 1.
Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the
thready roots of a shrub.
2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
Threap (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Threaped
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Threaping.] [AS.
to reprove.] [Written also
threpe, and threip.] 1.
To call; to name. [Obs.]
2. To maintain obstinately against denial or
contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with
obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it
was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Burns.
3. To beat, or thrash. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
4. To cozen, or cheat. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
Threap, v. i. To contend obstinately; to
be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
It's not for a man with a woman to threap.
Percy's Reliques.
Threap (?), n. An obstinate
decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
He was taken a threap that he would have it
finished before the year was done.
Carlyle.
Threat (?), n. [AS.
, akin to \'be to
vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel.
to fail, want, lack, Goth.
us to vex, to trouble, Russ.
trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L.
trudere to push. Cf. Abstruse,
Intrude, Obstrude, Protrude.]
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on
another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come;
meance; threatening; denunciation.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
Shak.
Threat, v. t. & i. [OE.
, AS. . See
Threat, n.] To threaten.
[Obs. or Poetic]
Shak.
Of all his threating reck not a mite.
Chaucer.
Our dreaded admiral from far they threat.
Dryden.
Threat"en (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Threatened
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Threatening.] [OE.
. See Threat, v.
t.] 1. To utter threats against; to
menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to
alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to
warn.
Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak
henceforth to no man in this name.
Acts iv. 17.
2. To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or
unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce
the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war;
to threaten death.
Milton.
The skies look grimly
And threaten present blusters.
Shak.
Syn. -- To menace. -- Threaten,
Menace. Threaten is Anglo-Saxon, and
menace is Latin. As often happens, the former is the
more familiar term; the latter is more employed in formal style.
We are threatened with a drought; the country is
menaced with war.
By turns put on the suppliant and the lord:
Threatened this moment, and the next implored.
Prior.
Of the sharp ax
Regardless, that o'er his devoted head
Hangs menacing.
Somerville.
Threat"en, v. i. To use threats, or
menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.
Though the seas threaten, they are merciful.
Shak.
Threat"en*er (?), n. One who
threatens.
Shak.
Threat"en*ing, a. & n. from
Threaten, v. --
Threat"en*ing*ly, adv.
Threatening letters (Law), letters
containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or
to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing
letters.
Threat"ful (?), a. Full of
threats; having a menacing appearance. Spenser. --
Threat"ful*ly, adv.
Threave (?), n. Same as
Thrave. [Obs.]
Three (?), a. [OE.
, ,
, AS. , masc.,
, fem. and neut.; akin to OFries.
thre, OS. thria, threa, D.
drie, G. drei, OHG. dr\'c6,
Icel. , Dan. & Sw. tre, Goth.
, Lith. trys, Ir., Gael. & W.
tri, Russ. tri, L. tres, Gr.
trei^s, Skr. tri. \'fb301. Cf. 3d
Drilling, Tern, a., Third,
Thirteen, Thirty, Tierce,
Trey, Tri-, Triad, Trinity,
Tripod.] One more than two; two and
one. \'bdI offer thee three things.\'b8
2 Sam. xxiv. 12.
Three solemn aisles approach the shrine.
Keble.
Three is often joined with other words,
forming compounds signifying divided into,
composed of, or containing, three
parts, portions, organs, or the like;
as, three-branched, three-capsuled,
three-celled, three-cleft,
three-edged, three-foot,
three-footed, three-forked,
three-grained, three-headed,
three-legged, three-mouthed,
three-nooked, three-petaled,
three-pronged, three-ribbed,
three-seeded, three-stringed,
three-toed, and the like.
Three, n. 1. The number greater
by a unit than two; three units or objects.
2. A symbol representing three units, as 3 or
iii.
Rule of three. (Arith.) See under
Rule, n.
Three"-coat` (?), a.
(Arch.) Having or consisting of three coats; --
applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating,
and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a
scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
Three"-cor`nered (?), a. 1.
Having three corners, or angles; as, a
three-cornered hat.
2. (Bot.) Having three prominent
longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered
stem.
Three"-deck`er (?), n.
(Naut.) A vessel of war carrying guns on three
decks.
Three"-flow`ered (?), a.
(Bot.) Bearing three flowers together, or only
three flowers.
Three"fold` (?), a. [OE.
; cf. AS.
.] Consisting of three, or
thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold
justice.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Eccl. iv. 12.
Three"-hand`ed (?), a. Said of
games or contests where three persons play against each other, or
two against one; as, a three-handed game of
cards.
{ Three"-leafed` (?),
Three"-leaved` (?), } a.
(Bot.) (a) Producing three leaves;
as, three-leaved nightshade. (b)
Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets
arranged in threes.
Three-leaved nightshade. See
Trillium.
Three"-lobed` (?), a. Having
three lobes.
Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), a leaf
divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than
half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being
rounded.
Three"-nerved` (?), a. Having
three nerves.
Three-nerved leaf (Bot.), a leaf
having three distinct and prominent ribs, or nerves, extending
from the base.
Three"-part`ed (?), a. Divided
into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite.
Three-parted leaf (Bot.), a leaf
divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely
separate.
Three"pence (?), n. A small
silver coin of three times the value of a penny.
[Eng.]
Three"pen*ny (?), a. Costing or
worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
Three"-pile` (?), n. An old
name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a
fine, thick pile.
I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore
three-pile.
Shak.
Three"-piled` (?), a. 1.
Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.
[R.]
Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled
piece.
Shak.
2. Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated;
high-flown. \'bdThree-piled hyperboles.\'b8
Shak.
3. Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high
rank, or wealth. [Obs.]
\'bdThree-piled people.\'b8
Beau. & Fl.
Three"-ply` (?), a. Consisting
of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or
carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
Three"-point`ed (?), a.
(Bot.) Having three acute or setigerous points;
tricuspidate.
Three"-quar`ter (?), a.
(Paint.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five;
-- said of portraitures.
Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the
figure to the hips only.
Three"-score` (?), a. Thrice
twenty; sixty.
Three"-sid`ed (?), a. Having
three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a
three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or
pericarp.
Three"-square` (?), a. Having a
cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said
especially of a kind of file.
Three"-valved` (?), a.
Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three
valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
Three"-way` (?), a. Connected
with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a
three-way cock or valve.
Threne (?), n. [L.
threnus, Gr. Drone.]
Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
Shak.
The threns . . . of the prophet Jeremiah.
Jer. Taylor.
{ Thre*net"ic (?), Thre*net"ic*al
(?), } a. [Gr. Threne.] Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful;
mournful.
Thren"ode (?), n. A threne, or
threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.
Thren"o*dist (?), n. One who
composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.
Thren"o*dy (?), n. [Gr. Threne, and
Ode.] A song of lamentation; a
threnode.
Sir T. Herbert.
Threpe (?), v. t. [See
Threap.] To call; to term.
[Obs.] \'bdLuna silver we threpe.\'b8
Chaucer.
Threp*sol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] (Med.) The
doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.
Thresh (?), v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Threshed
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Threshing.] Same as
Thrash.
He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve.
Chaucer.
Thresh"er (?), n. Same as
Thrasher.
Thresh"-fold` (?), n.
Threshold. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thresh"old (?), n. [OE.
threswold, , AS.
, ,
, , fr.
, , to thresh;
akin to Icel. ,
, Sw. tr\'94skel, Dan.
t\'91rskel. See Thrash.] 1.
The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a
door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the
like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
2. Fig.: The place or point of entering or
beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of
life.
Thresh"wold` (?), n.
Threshold. [Obs.]
Threste (?), v. t.
[imp. Threste; p. p. &
Threst.] To thrust.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thret"teen` (?), a.
Thirteen. [Obs. or Scot.]
Thret"ty (?), a. Thirty.
[Obs. or Scot.]
Burns.
Threw (?), imp. of
Throw.
Thrib"ble (?), a. Triple;
treble; threefold. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq.]
Halliwell.
Thrice (?), adv. [OE.
thries; thrie thrice (AS.
, ) + -s, the
adverbal suffix. See Three, and -wards.]
1. Three times. \'bdThrice in
vain.\'b8
Spenser.
Verily I say unto thee. That this night, before the cock crow,
thou shalt deny me thrice.
Matt. xxvi. 34.
2. In a threefold manner or degree; repeatedly;
very.
Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you
To pardon me.
Shak.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.
Shak.
Thrice is often used, generally with an
intensive force, to form compounds which are usually of obvious
meaning; as, in thrice-blessed,
thrice-favored, thrice-hallowed,
thrice-happy, thrice-told, and the
like.
Thrice"cock` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The missel thrush. [Prov.
Eng.]
Thrid (?), a. Third.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thrid, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thridded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Thridding.] [A variant of
thread.] 1. To pass through in the
manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through;
to thread.
Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair.
Pope.
And now he thrids the bramble bush.
J. R. Drake.
I began
To thrid the musky-circled mazes.
Tennyson.
2. To make or effect (a way or course) through
something; as, to thrid one's way through a
wood.
Thrid, n. Thread; continuous line.
[Archaic]
I resume the thrid of my discourse.
Dryden.
Thri"fal`low (?), v. t. See
Thryfallow, and Trifallow.
[R.]
Tusser.
Thrift (?), n. [Icel.
. See Thrive.] 1.
A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in
regard to property; frugality.
The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove
very good husbands.
Spenser.
2. Success and advance in the acquisition of
property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
\'bdYour thrift is gone full clean.\'b8
Chaucer.
I have a mind presages me such thrift.
Shak.
3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
4. (Bot.) One of several species of
flowering plants of the genera Statice and
Armeria.
Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria
vulgaris; -- also called sea
pink.
Syn. -- Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.
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Thrift"i*ty (?), adv. 1.
In a thrifty manner.
2. Carefully; properly; becomingly.
[Obs.]
A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret
[greeted].
Chaucer.
Thrift"i*ness, n. The quality or state
of being thrifty; thrift.
Thrift"less, a. Without thrift; not
prudent or prosperous in money affairs. --
Thrift"less*ly, adv. --
Thrift"less*ness, n.
Thrift"y (?), a.
[Compar. Thriftier (?);
superl. Thriftiest.] 1.
Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and
good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.
Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new.
Chaucer.
I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he
hath not been thrifty.
Swift.
2. Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous
in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth;
as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.
3. Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as,
a thrifty plant or colt.
4. Secured by thrift; well husbanded.
[R.]
I have five hundred crowns,
The thrifty hire I saved under your father.
Shak.
5. Well appearing; looking or being in good
condition; becoming. [Obs.]
I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth.
Chaucer.
Syn. -- Frugal; sparing; economical; saving; careful.
Thrill (?), n. [See
Trill.] A warbling; a trill.
Thrill, n. [AS. an
aperture. See Thrill, v. t.] A
breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
Thrill, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thrilled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Thrilling.] [OE.
thrillen, , , to
pierce; all probably fr. AS. ,
, Fr. pierced; as a noun,
a hole, fr. through; probably akin to D.
drillen to drill, to bore. \'fb53. See
Through, and cf. Drill to bore,
Nostril, Trill to trickle.] 1.
To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix;
to drill. [Obs.]
He pierced through his chafed chest
With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.
Spenser.
2. Hence, to affect, as if by something that
pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing,
tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.
To bathe in flery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice.
Shak.
Vivid and picturesque turns of expression which
thrill the
M. Arnold.
The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled,
That sudden cold did run through every vein.
Spenser.
3. To hurl; to throw; to cast.
[Obs.]
I'll thrill my javelin.
Heywood.
Thrill, v. i. 1. To pierce, as
something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling
sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering;
as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole
frame.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my
veins.
Shak.
2. To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or
exquisite sensation, running through the body.
To seek sweet safety out
In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake.
Shak.
Thrill, n. 1. A drill. See 3d
Drill, 1.
2. A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous
excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a
thrill of joy.
Burns.
Thrill"ant (?), a. Piercing;
sharp; thrilling. [Obs.] \'bdHis
thrillant spear.\'b8
Spenser.
Thrill"ing, a. Causing a thrill; causing
tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling
romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly,
adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness,
n.
Thring (?), v. t. & i.
[imp. Throng
(?).] [AS. . See
Throng.] To press, crowd, or throng.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
\'d8Thrips (?), n. [L., a
woodworm, Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of
numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which
attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips
cerealium).
Thrist (?), n. Thrist.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Thrit"tene` (?), a.
Thirteen. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thrive (?), v. i.
[imp. Throve (?) or
Thrived (; p. p.
Thrived or Thriven (; p. pr.
& vb. n. Thriving.] [OE.
, Icel. ; probably
originally, to grasp for one's self, from
to grasp; akin to Dan. trives to thrive, Sw.
trifvas. Cf. Thrift.] 1.
To posper by industry, economy, and good management of
property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer
thrives by good husbandry.
Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the
riches of the understanding, as well as in gold.
I. Watts.
2. To prosper in any business; to have increase or
success. \'bdThey by vices thrive.\'b8
Sandys.
O son, why sit we here, each other viewing
Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives?
Milton.
And so she throve and prospered.
Tennyson.
3. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow
vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young
cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in
a good soil.
Thriv"en (?), p. p. of
Thrive.
Thriv"er (?), n. One who
thrives, or prospers.
Thriv"ing*ly, adv. In a thriving
manner.
Thriv"ing*ness, n. The quality or
condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase.
Thro' (?). A contraction of
Through.
Throat (?), n. [OE.
throte, AS. , ;
akin to OHG. drozza, G. drossel; cf.
OFries. & D. stort. Cf. Throttle.]
1. (Anat.) (a) The part of the
neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
(b) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach
and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the
fauces.
I can vent clamor from my throat.
Shak.
2. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a
passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or
vase.
3. (Arch.) The part of a chimney between
the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in
ascending, and the flue.
Gwilt.
4. (Naut.) (a) The upper fore
corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
(b) That end of a gaff which is next the
mast. (c) The angle where the arm of an
anchor is joined to the shank.
Totten.
5. (Shipbuilding) The inside of a timber
knee.
6. (Bot.) The orifice of a tubular
organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the
faux, or fauces.
Throat brails (Naut.), brails
attached to the gaff close to the mast. -- Throat
halyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the
throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe
(Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. -- To
give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one pointedly
of lying abominably. -- To lie in one's throat,
to lie flatly or abominably.
Throat, v. t. 1. To utter in
the throat; to mutter; as, to throat
threats. [Obs.]
Chapman.
2. To mow, as beans, in a direction against their
bending. [Prov. Eng.]
Throat"band` (?), n. Same as
Throatlatch.
Throat"boll` (?), n.
[Throat + boll a ball.] The
Adam's apple in the neck. [Obs. or R.]
By the throatboll he caught Aleyn.
Chaucer.
Throat"ing, n. (Arch.) A
drip, or drip molding.
Throat"latch` (?), n. A strap
of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's
throat.
Throat"wort` (?), n.
(Bot.) A plant (Campanula Trachelium)
formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its
throat-shaped corolla.
Throat"y (?), a. Guttural;
hoarse; having a guttural voice. \'bdHard,
throaty words.\'b8
Howell.
Throb (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Throbbed
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Throbbing.] [OE. ;
of uncertain origin; cf. Russ. trepete a trembling,
and E. trepidation.] To beat, or pulsate,
with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of
agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.
My heart
Throbs to know one thing.
Shak.
Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast.
Shak.
Throb, n. A beat, or strong pulsation,
as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a
papitation:
The IMPATIENT throbs and longings of a soul
That pants and reaches after distant good.
Addison.
Throd"den (?), v. i. [Prov. E.
throdden, throddle, fat, thriving; cf.
Icel. throask to grow.] To grow; to
thrive. [Prov. Eng.]
Grose.
Throe (?), n. [OE.
, , AS.
a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel.
a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS.
to suffer.] 1. Extreme
pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs
of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes.
Milton.
2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a
frow.
Throe, v. i. To struggle in extreme
pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
Throe, v. t. To put in agony.
[R.]
Shak.
\'d8Throm*bo"sis (?), n. [NL.
See Thrombus.] (Med.) The
obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of
obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is
produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance.
-- Throm*bot"ic (#),
a.
\'d8Throm"bus (?), n.; pl.
Thrombi (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.) (a)
A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and
remaining at the site of coagulation. (b) A
tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous
cellular tissue.
Throne (?), n. [OE.
trone, F. tr\'93ne, L. thronus,
Gr. dhara supporting,
dh to hold fast, carry, and E. firm,
a.] 1. A chair of state, commonly a royal
seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high
dignitary.
The noble king is set up in his throne.
Chaucer.
High on a throne of royal state.
Milton.
2. Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the
one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign
authority; an exalted or dignified personage.
Only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Gen. xli. 40.
To mold a mighty state's decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne.
Tennyson.
3. pl. A high order of angels in the
celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
Milton.
Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless
sing.
Young.
Throne, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Throned (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Throning.] 1. To
place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
Shak.
2. To place in an elevated position; to give
sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
True image of the Father, whether throned
In the bosom of bliss, and light of light.
Milton.
Throne (?), v. i. To be in, or
sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
Shak.
Throne"less, a. Having no throne.
Throng (?), n. [OE.
, , AS.
ge, fr. to crowd,
to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G.
dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel.
, , Goth.
, D. & G. drang a throng,
press, Icel. a throng, Lith.
trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf.
Thring.] 1. A multitude of persons
or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or
assemblage; a crowd.
2. A great multitude; as, the heavenly
throng.
Syn. -- Throng, Multitude,
Crowd. Any great number of persons form a
multitude; a throng is a large number of
persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective
body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number
of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into
immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed
multitude; the throngs in the streets of a
city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these
distinctions are not carefully observed.
So, with this bold opposer rushes on
This many-headed monster, multitude.
Daniel.
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng.
Milton.
I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp,
From crowds that hide a monarch from himself.
Johnson.
Throng, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Thronged (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Thronging.] To crowd together;
to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons;
to gather or move in multitudes.
I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
Shak.
Throng, v. t. 1. To crowd, or
press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living
beings.
Much people followed him, and thronged him.
Mark v. 24.
2. To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or
pressing into, as a hall or a street.
Shak.
Throng, a. Thronged; crowded; also, much
occupied; busy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Bp. Sanderson.
To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too
throng.
Robynson (More's Utopia).
Throng"ly, adv. In throngs or
crowds. [Obs.]
Throp (?), n. A thorp.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Throp"ple (?), n. [Cf.
Thrapple, and see Throttle.] The
windpipe. [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Throp"ple, v. t. To throttle.
[Prov. Eng.]
Thros"tle (?), n. [OE.
throsel, AS. ,
; akin to MHG. trostel, G.
drossel, Icel. , Sw.
trast, Lith. strazdas, L.
turdus. \'fb238. Cf. Thrush the bird.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) The song thrush. See under
Song.
2. A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from
the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and
flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting
apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called
because it makes a singing noise.
Throstle cock, the missel thrush.
[Prov. Eng.]
Thros"tling (?), n. [Cf.
Throttle.] A disease of bovine cattle,
consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked,
causes strangulation.
Throt"tle (?), n. [Dim. of
throat. See Throat.] 1.
The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
Sir W. Scott.
2. (Steam Engine) The throttle
valve.
Throttle lever (Steam Engine), the
hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a
locomotive. -- Throttle valve (Steam
Engine), a valve moved by hand or by a governor for
regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it
consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.
Throt"tle, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Throttled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Throttling (?).]
1. To compress the throat of; to choke; to
strangle.
Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than
if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together
with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a
whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.
Milton.
2. To utter with breaks and interruption, in the
manner of a person half suffocated. [R.]
Throttle their practiced accent in their fears.
Shak.
3. To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an
engine.
Throt"tle, v. i. 1. To have the
throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke;
to suffocate.
2. To breathe hard, as when nearly
suffocated.
Throt"tler (?), n. 1.
One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.
2. (Zo\'94l.) See Flasher, 3
(b). [Prov. Eng.]
Through (?), prep. [OE.
thurgh, , ,
, AS. ; akin to OS.
thurh, thuru, OFries. thruch, D.
door, OHG. durh, duruh, G.
durch, Goth. ; cf. Ir.
tri, tre, W. trwy. \'fb53. Cf.
Nostril, Thorough, Thrill.]
1. From end to end of, or from side to side of;
from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at
the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore
through a piece of timber, or through a board;
a ball passes through the side of a ship.
2. Between the sides or walls of; within; as,
to pass through a door; to go through an
avenue.
Through the gate of ivory he dismissed
His valiant offspring.
Dryden.
3. By means of; by the agency of.
Through these hands this science has passed with
great applause.
Sir W. Temple.
Material things are presented only through their
senses.
Cheyne.
4. Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to
ride through the country; to look through an
account.
5. Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote
passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the
light glimmers through a thicket.
6. From the beginning to the end of; to the end or
conclusion of; as, through life; through
the year.
Through, adv. 1. From one end
or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing
through.
2. From beginning to end; as, to read a letter
through.
3. To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate
purpose; as, to carry a project through.
Through was formerly used to form
compound adjectives where we now use thorough; as,
through-bred; through-lighted;
through-placed, etc.
To drop through, to fall through; to come to
naught; to fail. -- To fall through. See
under Fall, v. i.
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Through (?), a. Going or
extending through; going, extending, or serving from the
beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a
through line; a through ticket; a
through train. Also, admitting of passage through;
as, a through bridge.
Through bolt, a bolt which passes through all
the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it
is fixed. -- Through bridge, a bridge in
which the floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues
instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and
not over them. Cf. Deck bridge, under
Deck. -- Through cold, a deep-seated
cold. [Obs.] Holland. -- Through
stone, a flat gravestone. [Scot.]
[Written also through stane.] Sir W.
Scott. -- Through ticket, a ticket for the
whole journey. -- Through train, a train
which goes the whole length of a railway, or of a long
route.
Through"ly, adv. Thoroughly.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity.
Ps. li. 2.
To dare in fields is valor; but how few
Dare to be throughly valiant to be true?
Dryden.
Through*out" (?), prep. Quite
through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of;
as, to search throughout the house.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Milton.
Through*out", adv. In every part;
as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
Throve (?), imp. of
Thrive.
Throw (?), n. [See
Throe.] Pain; especially, pain of travail;
throe. [Obs.]
Spenser. Dryden.
Throw, n. [AS. ,
.] Time; while; space of time;
moment; trice. [Obs.]
Shak.
I will with Thomas speak a little throw.
Chaucer.
Throw, v. t. [imp.
Threw (?); p. p. Thrown
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Throwing.] [OE. ,
, to throw, to twist, AS.
to twist, to whirl; akin to D.
draaijen, G. drehen, OHG.
dr\'bejan, L. terebra an auger, gimlet, Gr.
Thread, Trite, Turn, v.
t.] 1. To fling, cast, or hurl with a
certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball;
-- distinguished from to toss, or to
bowl.
2. To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a
distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send;
as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon
throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of
water to extinguish flames.
3. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or
sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
4. (Mil.) To cause to take a strategic
position; as, he threw a detachment of his army
across the river.
5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as,
a man throws his antagonist.
6. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
Set less than thou throwest.
Shak.
7. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.
Pope.
8. To divest or strip one's self of; to put
off.
There the snake throws her enameled skin.
Shak.
9. (Pottery) To form or shape roughly on
a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
10. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to
vent.
I have thrown
A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth.
Shak.
11. To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear;
-- said especially of rabbits.
12. To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so
as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a
direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; --
sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk
is prepared for the weaver.
Tomlinson.
To throw away. (a) To lose by neglect
or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation;
as, to throw away time; to throw away
money. (b) To reject; as, to throw
away a good book, or a good offer. -- To throw
back. (a) To retort; to cast back, as a
reply. (b) To reject; to refuse.
(c) To reflect, as light. -- To throw
by, to lay aside; to discard; to neglect as useless;
as, to throw by a garment. -- To throw
down, to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as,
to throw down a fence or wall. -- To throw
in. (a) To inject, as a fluid.
(b) To put in; to deposit with others; to
contribute; as, to throw in a few dollars to help
make up a fund; to throw in an occasional
comment. (c) To add without enumeration or
valuation, as something extra to clinch a bargain. --
To throw off. (a) To expel; to free one's
self from; as, to throw off a disease.
(b) To reject; to discard; to abandon; as,
to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a
dependent. (c) To make a start in a hunt
or race. [Eng.]<-- (d) To emit. Same as throw
out (e). (e) To disconcert or confuse. Same as to throw
out (f). --> -- To throw on, to cast on; to
load. -- To throw one's self down, to lie
down neglectively or suddenly. -- To throw one's
self on upon. (a) To
fall upon. (b) To resign one's self to the
favor, clemency, or sustain power of (another); to repose
upon. -- To throw out. (a) To cast
out; to reject or discard; to expel. \'bdThe other two, whom
they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy
their exile.\'b8 Swift. \'bdThe bill was thrown
out.\'b8 Swift. (b) To utter; to give
utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation
or observation. \'bdShe throws out thrilling
shrieks.\'b8 Spenser. (c) To distance; to
leave behind. Addison. (d) To cause to
project; as, to throw out a pier or an abutment.
(e) To give forth; to emit; as, an electric lamp
throws out a brilliant light. (f) To
put out; to confuse; as, a sudden question often throws
out an orator. -- To throw over, to
abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw
over a friend in difficulties. -- To throw
up. (a) To resign; to give up; to demit; as,
to throw up a commission. \'bdExperienced
gamesters throw up their cards when they know that the
game is in the enemy's hand.\'b8 Addison. (b)
To reject from the stomach; to vomit. (c)
To construct hastily; as, to throw up a
breastwork of earth.
Throw (?), v. i. To perform the
act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast
dice.
To throw about, to cast about; to try
expedients. [R.]
Throw, n. 1. The act of hurling
or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine;
a cast.
He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw,
He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe.
Addison.
2. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.]
Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws.
Spenser.
3. The distance which a missile is, or may be,
thrown; as, a stone's throw.
4. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall
when cast; as, a good throw.
5. An effort; a violent sally.
[Obs.]
Your youth admires
The throws and swellings of a Roman soul.
Addison.
6. (Mach.) The extreme movement given to
a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank,
eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the
throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the
length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an
eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam
engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
7. (Pottery) A potter's wheel or table;
a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
8. A turner's lathe; a throwe. [Prov.
Eng.]
9. (Mining) The amount of vertical
displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction
it is designated as an upthrow, or a
downthrow.
Throw"-crook` (?), n.
(Agric.) An instrument used for twisting ropes
out of straw.
Throwe (?), n. A turning
lathe. [Prov. Eng.]
Throw"er (?), n. One who
throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk;
a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing
engine.
Throw"ing, a. & n. from Throw,
v.
Throwing engine, Throwing mill,
Throwing table, Throwing wheel
(Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is first
rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay
revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a vertical
spindle; a potter's wheel.
Thrown (?), a. & p. p. from
Throw, v.
Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or
more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction
contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are
twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles,
silk thread or cord made by three processes of twisting,
first into singles, two or more of which are twisted
together making dumb singles, and several of these
twisted together to make thrown singles.
Throw"-off` (?), n. A start in
a hunt or a race. [Eng.]
Throw"ster (?), n.
[Throw + -ster.] One who
throws or twists silk; a thrower.
Thru (?), prep., adv. & a.
Through. [Ref. spelling.]
Thrum (?), n. [OE.
thrum, throm; akin to OD. drom,
D. dreum, G. trumm, lump, end, fragment,
OHG. drum end, Icel. edge, brim,
and L. terminus a limit, term. Cf.
Term.] [Written also
thrumb.] 1. One of the ends of
weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts
resembling these.
2. Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of
rope.
3. (Bot.) A threadlike part of a flower;
a stamen.
4. (Mining) A shove out of place; a
small displacement or fault along a seam.
5. (Naut.) A mat made of canvas and
tufts of yarn.
Thrum cap, a knitted cap.
Halliwell. -- Thrum hat, a hat made
of coarse woolen cloth. Minsheu.
Thrum, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thrummed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Thrumming.] 1. To
furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
Are we born to thrum caps or pick straw?
Quarles.
2. (Naut.) To insert short pieces of
rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of
canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted
surface.
Totten.
Thrum, v. i. [CF. Icel.
to rattle, to thunder, and E.
drum.] 1. To play rudely or
monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to
strum.
2. Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise;
as, to thrum on a table.
Thrum, v. t. 1. To play, as a
stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
2. Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous
manner; to thrum the table.
Thrum"-eyed` (?), a.
(Bot.) Having the anthers raised above the
stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in
long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of
pin-eyed.
Thrum"my (?), a. Like thrums;
made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums.
Dampier.
On her head thrummy cap she had.
Chalkhill.
Thrum"wort` (?), n.
(Bot.) A kind of amaranth (Amarantus
caudatus).
Dr. Prior.
Thru*out" (?). Throughout.
[Ref. spelling.]
Thrush (?), n. [OE.
, AS. ; akin to
OHG. drosca, droscea, droscela,
and E. throstle. Cf. Throstle.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous
species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and
allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their
songs.
Turdus musicus), the missel thrush
(see under Missel), the European redwing, and the
blackbird. The most important American species are the wood
thrush (Turdus mustelinus), Wilson's thrush (T.
fuscescens), the hermit thrush (see under Hermit),
Swainson's thrush (T. Alici\'91), and the migratory
thrush, or American robin (see Robin).
2. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous
species of singing birds more or less resembling the true
thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the
American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown
thrush.
Ant thrush. See Ant thrush,
Breve, and Pitta. -- Babbling
thrush, any one of numerous species of Asiatic timaline
birds; -- called also babbler. --
Fruit thrush, any species of bulbul. --
Shrike thrush. See under Shrike. --
Stone thrush, the missel thrush; -- said to be so
called from its marbled breast. -- Thrush
nightingale. See Nightingale, 2. --
Thrush tit, any one of several species of Asiatic
singing birds of the genus Cochoa. They are
beautifully colored birds allied to the tits, but resembling
thrushes in size and habits. -- Water thrush.
(a) The European dipper. (b) An
American warbler (Seiurus Noveboracensis).
Thrush (?), n. [Akin to Dan.
tr\'94ske, Sw. trosk; cf. Dan.
t\'94r dry, Sw. torr, Icel.
, AS. , OE. thrust
thrist, E. thrist.] 1.
(Med.) An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc.,
common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers
called aphth\'91. See Aphth\'91.
2. (Far.) An inflammatory and
suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the
horse it is in the frog.
Thrush"el (?), n. The song
thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
Thrush"er (?), n. The song
thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
Thrust (?), n. & v.
Thrist. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Thrust, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thrust (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thrusting.] [OE. ,
, , Icel.
to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps
akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or
drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to
thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an
instrument.
Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.
Milton.
2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with
through.
To thrust away from,
to push away; to reject. -- To thrust in,
to push or drive in. -- To thrust off, to
push away. -- To thrust on, to impel; to
urge. -- To thrust one's self in into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into
a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not
welcome. -- To thrust out, to drive out or
away; to expel. -- To thrust through, to
pierce; to stab. \'bdI am eight times thrust through
the doublet.\'b8 Shak. -- To thrust
together, to compress.
Thrust, v. i. 1. To make a
push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer
thrusts at his antagonist.
2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
And thrust between my father and the god.
Dryden.
3. To push forward; to come with force; to press
on; to intrude. \'bdYoung, old, thrust there in
mighty concourse.\'b8
Chapman.
To thrust to, to rush upon.
[Obs.]
As doth an eager hound
Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.
Spenser.
Thrust, n. 1. A violent push or
driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its
length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab;
-- a word much used as a term of fencing.
[Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.
Dryden.
2. An attack; an assault.
One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
Dr. H. More.
3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one
part of a construction against other parts; especially
(Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as
of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall
which support them.
4. (Mining) The breaking down of the
roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a
bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the
screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.),
the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the
case of a reversed fault.
Syn. -- Push; shove; assault; attack.
Thrust, Push, Shove. Push
and shove usually imply the application of force by a
body already in contact with the body to be impelled.
Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or
application of force by a body which is in motion before it
reaches the body to be impelled.
Thrust"er (?), n. One who
thrusts or stabs.
Thrust"ing, n. 1. The act of
pushing with force.
2. (Dairies) (a) The act of
squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey.
(b) pl. The white whey, or that which
is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter
is sometimes made. [Written also
thrutchthings.] [Prov. Eng.]
Thrusting screw, the screw of a screw press,
as for pressing curd in making cheese.
[R.]
Thrus"tle (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The throstle, or song thrust.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
When he heard the thrustel sing.
Chaucer.
Thryes (?), a. Thrice.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thry"fal`low (?), v. t.
[Perhaps fr. thrice + fallow. Cf.
Trifallow.] To plow for the third time in
summer; to trifallow. [R.] [Written
also thrifallow.]
Tusser.
Thud (?), n. [Cf. AS.
a whirlwind, violent wind, or E.
thump.] A dull sound without resonance,
like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some
comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing
such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking
the earth.
At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose.
Jeffrey.
At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the
side of the steamer.
C. Mackay.
Thug (?), n. [Hind.
thag a deceiver, robber.] One of an
association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced
murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They
have been nearly exterminated by the British government.
Thug*gee" (?), n. [Hind.
.] The practice of secret or
stealthy murder by Thugs. \'bdOne of the suppressors of
Thuggee.\'b8
J. D. Hooker.
{ Thug"ger*y (?), Thug"gism
(?), } n. Thuggee.
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\'d8Thu"ja (?), n. [NL., from
Gr.
(Bot.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly
branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their
branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed
leaves. [Written also thuya.] See
Thyine wood.
Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor
vit\'91 of the Eastern and Northern United States.
T. gigantea of North-waetern America is a very large
tree, there called red cedar, and canoe
cedar, and furnishes a useful timber.
<-- thuja oil. cedar leaf oil.
thujone. n. An oil, C10H16O, the chief constituent of cedar
leaf oil. A stimulant similar to camphor. Also called thujol,
thuyol, absinthol, thuyone, tanacetol, tanacetone. [Stedman
25]-->
\'d8Thu"le (?), n. [L.
Thule, Thyle, Gr. The
name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the
habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway,
according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the
largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase
ultima Thule, farthest Thule.
Thu"li*a (?), n. [NL.]
(Chem.) Oxide of thulium.
Thu"li*um (?), n. [NL. See
Thule.] (Chem.) A rare metallic
element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been
found in the mineral gadolinite.
Thumb (?), n. [OE.
thombe, thoumbe, , AS.
; akin to OFries. th, D.
duim, G. daumen, OHG. d,
Icel. , Dan. tommelfinger, Sw.
tunne, and perhaps to L. tumere to swell.
\'fb56. Cf. Thimble, Tumid.] The
short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the
other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See
Pollex.
Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring.
Chaucer.
Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as
the thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue,
indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by
washerwomen to blue linen, and the like. -- Thumb
latch, a door latch having a lever formed to be pressed
by the thumb. -- Thumb mark. (a) The
mark left by the impression of a thumb, as on the leaves of a
book. Longfellow. (b) The dark spot
over each foot in finely bred black and tan terriers. --
Thumb nut, a nut for a screw, having wings to
grasp between the thumb and fingers in turning it; also, a nut
with a knurled rim for the same perpose. -- Thumb
ring, a ring worn on the thumb. Shak. --
Thumb stall. (a) A kind of thimble or
ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making
sails, and in other work. (b) (Mil.)
A buckskin cushion worn on the thumb, and used to close the
vent of a cannon while it is sponged, or loaded. --
Under one's thumb, completely under one's power or
influence; in a condition of subservience.
[Colloq.]
Thumb, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thumbed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Thumbing (?).] 1.
To handle awkwardly.
Johnson.
2. To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and
fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.
3. To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers;
to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with
the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a
cannon.
He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been
thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a
few more packs.
Macaulay.
Thumb, v. i. To play with the thumb or
thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.
Thumb"bird` (?), n. The
goldcrest. [Prov. Eng.]
Thumbed (?), a. 1.
Having thumbs.
2. Soiled by handling.
Thumb"kin (?), n. An instrument
of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
Thumb"less, a. Without a thumb.
Darwin.
Thumb"screw` (?), n. 1.
A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may
be turned by the thumb and forefinger.
2. An old instrument of torture for compressing the
thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.
Thum"mie (?), n. The
chiff-chaff. [Prov. Eng.]
Thum"mim (?), n. pl. [Heb., pl.
of th\'d3m perfection.] A mysterious part
or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See
the note under Urim.
Thump (?), n. [Probably of
imitative origin; perhaps influenced by dump,
v.t.] 1. The sound made by the sudden fall or
blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
The distant forge's swinging thump profound.
Wordsworth.
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
They dropped down, one by one.
Coleridge.
2. A blow or knock, as with something blunt or
heavy; a heavy fall.
The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that
I awaked at the knock.
Tatler.
Thump, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thumped (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Thumping.] To strike or beat
with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull
sound.
These bastard Bretons; whom our hathers
Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and
thumped.
Shak.
Thump, v. i. To give a thump or thumps;
to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.
A watchman at midnight thumps with his pole.
Swift.
Thump"er (?), n. One who, or
that which, thumps.
Thump"ing, a. Heavy; large.
[Colloq.]
Thun"der (?), n. [OE.
, , , AS.
; akin to to stretch, to
thunder, D. donder thunder, G. donner, OHG.
donar, Icel. Thor, L.
tonare to thunder, tonitrus thunder, Gr.
tan to stretch.
\'fb52. See Thin, and cf. Astonish,
Detonate, Intone, Thursday,
Tone.] 1. The sound which follows a
flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric
electricity.
2. The discharge of electricity; a
thunderbolt. [Obs.]
The revenging gods
'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
Shak.
3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of
cannon.
4. An alarming or statrling threat or
denunciation.
The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike
into the heart of princes.
Prescott.
Thunder pumper. (Zo\'94l.) (a)
The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens).
(b) The American bittern or stake-driver. --
Thunder rod, a lightning rod.
[R.] -- Thunder snake.
(Zo\'94l.) (a) The chicken, or milk,
snake. (b) A small reddish ground snake
(Carphophis, ) native to the
Eastern United States; -- called also worm
snake. -- Thunder tube, a
fulgurite. See Fulgurite.
Thun"der (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Thundered
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thundering.] [AS. .
See Thunder, n.] 1. To
produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of
atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it
thundered continuously.
Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Job xl. 9.
2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound,
of some continuance.
His dreadful voice no more
Would thunder in my ears.
Milton.
3. To utter violent denunciation.
Thun"der, v. t. To emit with noise and
terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or
denunciation.
Oracles severe
Were daily thundered in our general's ear.
Dryden.
An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out
an ecclesiastical censure.
Ayliffe.
Thun"der*bird` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) An Australian insectivorous singing
bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is
conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black
crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated
thickhead, orange-breasted thrust,
black-crowned thrush, guttural
thrush, and black-breasted
flycatcher.
Thun"der*bolt` (?), n. 1.
A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity
passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the
clouds to the earth.
2. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and
effectiveness.
The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war.
Dryden.
3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially,
ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of
excommunication.
Hakewill.
4. (Paleon.) A belemnite, or
thunderstone.
Thunderbolt beetle (Zo\'94l.), a
long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva
bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and
bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the
elytra.
Thun"der*burst` (?), n. A burst
of thunder.
Thun"der*clap` (?), n. A sharp
burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric
electricity. \'bdThunderclaps that make them
quake.\'b8
Spenser.
When suddenly the thunderclap was heard.
Dryden.
Thun"der*cloud` (?), n. A cloud
charged with electricity, and producing lightning and
thunder.
Thun"der*er (?), n. One who
thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L.
tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of
their gods, esp. to Jupiter.
That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer.
Pope.
Thun"der*fish` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A large European loach (Misgurnus
fossilis).
Thun"der*head` (?), n. A
rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, --
often appearing before a thunderstorm.
Thun"der*ing, a. 1. Emitting
thunder.
Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground.
J. Trumbull.
2. Very great; -- often adverbially.
[Slang]
-- Thun"der*ing*ly,
adv.
Thun"der*ing, n. Thunder.
Rev. iv. 5.
Thun"der*less, a. Without thunder or
noise.
Thun"der*ous (?), a. [Written
also thundrous.] 1. Producing
thunder. [R.]
How he before the thunderous throne doth lie.
Milton.
2. Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and
deep; sonorous.
-- Thun"der*ous*ly,
adv.
Thun"der*proof` (?), a. Secure
against the effects of thunder or lightning.
Thun"der*show`er (?), n. A
shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
Thun"der*stone` (?), n. 1.
A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone.
Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone.
Shak.
2. (Paleon.) A belemnite. See
Belemnite.
Thun"der*storm` (?), n. A storm
accompanied with lightning and thunder.
Thun"der*strike` (?), v. t.
[imp. Thunderstruck (?);
p. p. Thunderstruck, -strucken
(; p. pr. & vb. n.
Thunderstriking.] 1. To
strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning.
[R.]
Sir P. Sidney.
2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something
terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
drove before him, thunderstruck.
Milton.
Thun"der*worm` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A small, footless, burrowing,
snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to
Amphisb\'91na, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves
its burrows after a thundershower.
Thun"der*y (?), a. Accompanied
with thunder; thunderous. [R.]
\'bdThundery weather.\'b8
Pennant.
Thun"drous (?), a. Thunderous;
sonorous. \'bdScraps of thunderous epic.\'b8
Tennyson.
Thun"ny (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The tunny. [R.]
Thurgh (?), prep.
Through. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Thurgh"fare` (?), n.
Thoroughfare. [Obs.]
This world is but a thurghfare full of woe.
Chaucer.
Thu"ri*ble (?), n. [L.
thuribulum, turibulum, from
thus, thuris, or better tus,
turis, frankincense, fr. Gr. (R. C. Ch.)
A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various
forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used
especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services.
Fairholt.
Thu*rif"er*ous (?), a. [L.
thurifer, turifer; thus
frankincense + -ferre to bear.] Producing
or bearing frankincense.
Thu`ri*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L.
thus incense + -ficare (in comp.) to make.
See -fy.] The act of fuming with incense, or
the act of burning incense.
Thu*rin"gi*an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its
people. -- n. A native, or
inhabitant of Thuringia.
Thu*rin"gite (?), n. [From
Thuringia, where it is found.] (Min.)
A mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales
having an olive-green color and pearly luster. It is a hydrous
silicate of aluminia and iron.
Thurl (?), n. [AS.
a hole. \'fb53. See Thirl,
Thrill.] 1. A hole; an
aperture. [Obs.]
2. (Mining) (a) A short
communication between adits in a mine. (b) A
long adit in a coalpit.
Thurl, v. t. [See
Thrill.] 1. To cut through; to
pierce. [Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
2. (Mining) To cut through, as a
partition between one working and another.
Thurl"ing, n. (Mining) Same
as Thurl, n., 2 (a).
Thur"rok (?), n. [AS.
a boat.] The hold of a ship; a
sink. [Obs.]
Small drops of water that enter through a little crevice into
the thurrok and into the bottom of a ship.
Chaucer.
Thurs"day (?), n. [OE.
, , from the Scand. name
Thor + E. day. Icel.
Thor, the god of thunder, is akin to AS.
thunder; D. Donderdag Thursday, G.
Donnerstag, Icel. , Sw. & Dan.
Torsdag. \'fb52. See Thor, Thunder,
and Day.] The fifth day of the week,
following Wednesday and preceding Friday.
Holy Thursday. See under
Holy.
Thurst (?), n. (Coal
Mining) The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from
the removal of the pillars and stalls.
Raymond.
\'d8Thus (?), n. [L.
thus, better tus, frankincense. See
Thurible.] The commoner kind of frankincense,
or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine,
and other conifers.
Thus (?), adv. [OE.
thus, AS. ; akin to OFries. & OS.
thus, D. dus, and E. that; cf.
OHG. sus. See That.] 1.
In this or that manner; on this wise.
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.
Gen. vi. 22.
Thus God the heaven created, thus the
earth.
Milton.
2. To this degree or extent; so far; so; as,
thus wise; thus peaceble; thus
bold.
Shak.
Thus far extend, thus far thy
bounds.
Milton.
Thus"sock (?), n. See
Tussock. [Obs.]
Thu"ya (?), n. (Bot.)
Same as Thuja.
Thu"yin (?), n. (Chem.)
A substance extracted from trees of the genus
Thuja, or Thuya, and probably identical
with quercitrin. [Written also
thujin.]
Thwack (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Thwacked
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Thwacking.] [Cf. OE. thakken
to stroke, AS. , E. whack.]
1. To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang,
or thrash: to thump. \'bdA distant thwacking
sound.\'b8
W. Irving.
2. To fill to overflow. [Obs.]
Stanyhurst.
Thwack, n. A heavy blow with something
flat or heavy; a thump.
With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab tree and old iron rang.
Hudibras.
Thwaite (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The twaite.
Thwaite, n. [CF. Icel.
a piece of land, fr. to
cut. See Thwite, and cf. Doit, and
Twaite land cleared of woods.] Forest land
cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart. [Obs.
or Prov. Eng.]
Thwaite occurs in composition as the last
element in many names of places in the north of England; as, in
Rosthwaite, Stonethwaite.
Thwart (?), a. [OE.
, , a. and adv., Icel.
, neut. of athwart,
transverse, across; akin to AS. perverse,
transverse, cross, D. dwars, OHG. dwerah,
twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. &
Sw. tver athwart, transverse, Sw. tv\'84r
cross, unfriendly, Goth. angry. Cf.
Queer.] 1. Situated or placed across
something else; transverse; oblique.
Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
Milton.
2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Thwart, adv. [See Thwart,
a.] Thwartly; obliquely; transversely;
athwart. [Obs.]
Milton.
Thwart, prep. Across; athwart.
Spenser.
Thwart ships. See Athwart ships,
under Athwart.
Thwart, n. (Naut.) A seat in
an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the
boat.
Thwart, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Thwarted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Thwarting.] 1. To move across
or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the
air. [Obs.]
Swift as a shooting star
In autumn thwarts the night.
Milton.
2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run
counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
Shak.
The proposals of the one never thwarted the
inclinations of the other.
South.
Thwart, v. i. 1. To move or go
in an oblique or crosswise manner. [R.]
2. Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.
[R.]
Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with
internal oracles.
Locke.
Thwart"er (?), n. (Far.)
A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or
convulsive motions.
Thwart"ing*ly, adv. In a thwarting or
obstructing manner; so as to thwart.
Thwart"ly, adv. Transversely;
obliquely.
Thwart"ness, n. The quality or state of
being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.
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Thwite (?), v. t. [AS.
. See Whittle, and cf.
Thwaite a piece of land.] To cut or clip with
a knife; to whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Chaucer.
Thwit"tle (?), v. t. [See
Thwite, and Whittle.] To cut or
whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Palsgrave.
Thwit"tle, n. A small knife; a
whittle. [Written also thwitel.]
[Obs.] \'bdA Sheffield thwittle.\'b8
Chaucer.
Thy (?), pron. [OE.
thi, shortened from thin. See
Thine, Thou.] Of thee, or belonging
to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive
case of thou; -- used always attributively, and
chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry.
Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is
thine. See Thine.
Our father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy
name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done.
Matt. vi. 9,10.
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good.
Milton.
Thy"ine wood` (?). [Gr. (Bot.) The fragrant
and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris
quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata.
The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin
called sandarach.
Rev. xviii. 12.
Thy"la*cine (?), n. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) The zebra wolf. See under
Wolf.
Thym"ate (?), n. (Chem.)
A compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium
thymate.
Thyme (?), n. [OE.
tyme, L. thymum, Gr. thym; -- perhaps so named because of its sweet smell.
Cf. Fume, n.] (Bot.)
Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus. The garden
thyme (Thymus vulgaris) is a warm, pungent aromatic,
much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.
Ankle deep in moss and flowery thyme.
Cowper.
Cat thyme, a labiate plant (Teucrium
Marum) of the Mediterranean religion. Cats are said to be
fond of rolling on it. J. Smith (Dict. Econ.
Plants). -- Wild thyme, Thymus
Serpyllum, common on banks and hillsides in
Europe.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.
Shak.
Thym"ene (?), n. (Chem.)
A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.
Thym"i*a*tech`ny (?), n. [Gr.
(Med.) The art of
employing perfumes in medicine. [R.]
Dunglison.
Thym"ic (?), a. (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the thymus gland.
Thy"mic (?), a. (Med.
Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as,
thymic acid.
Thym"ol (?), n.
[Thyme + -ol.]
(Chem.) A phenol derivative of cymene,
C10H13.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil
of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a
pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties; --
called also hydroxy cymene.
\'d8Thy"mus (?), a. [NL., fr.
Gr. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or
designating, the thymus gland. -- n.
The thymus gland.
Thymus gland, Thymus
body, a ductless gland in the throat, or in the
neighboring region, of nearly all vertebrates. In man and other
mammals it is the throat, or neck, sweetbread, which lies in the
upper part of the thorax and lower part of the throat. It is
largest in fetal and early life, and disappears or becomes
rudimentary in the adult.
Thym"y (?), a. Abounding with
thyme; fragrant; as, a thymy vale.
Akenside.
Where'er a thymy bank he found,
He rolled upon the fragrant ground.
Gay.
<-- thyratron
thyristor. -->
Thy"ro- (?). A combining form used in
anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation
to, the thyroid body or the thyroid
cartilage; as, thyrohyal.
Thy`ro*a*ryt"e*noid (?), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and
arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
Thy`ro*hy"al (?), n.
(Anat.) One of the lower segments in the hyoid
arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and
forming one of its great horns, as in man.
Thy`ro*hy"oid (?), a.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage
of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
Thy"roid (?), a. [Gr. thyro\'8bde,
thyr\'82o\'8bde.] 1. Shaped like
an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid
cartilage.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the
thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery;
thyroideal.
Thyroid cartilage. See under
Larynx. -- Thyroid body, Thyroid gland (Anat.), a
glandlike but ductless body, or pair of bodies, of unknown
function, in the floor of the mouth or the region of the larynx.
In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly
surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the
trachea.<-- produces thyroxine. --> -- Thyroid
dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the
thigh bone into the thyroid foramen. -- Thyroid
foramen, the obturator foramen.
Thy*roid"e*al (?), a.
(Anat.) Thyroid.
Thy*rot"o*my (?), n.
[Thyro- + Gr.
(Surg.) The operation of cutting into the thyroid
cartilage.
Thyrse (?), n. [Cf. F.
thyrse.] A thyrsus.
{ Thyr"soid (?), Thyr*soid"al
(?), } a. [Gr. thyrso\'8bde.]
Having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
\'d8Thyr"sus (?), n.; pl.
Thyrsi (#). [L., fr. Gr. Torso.] 1. A staff entwined with
ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy
leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and
of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.
A good to grow on graves
As twist about a thyrsus.
Mrs. Browning.
In my hand I bear
The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine.
Longfellow.
2. (Bot.) A species of inflorescence; a
dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
\'d8Thy`sa*nop"ter (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) One of the Thysanoptera.
\'d8Thy`sa*nop"te*ra (?), n. pl.
[NL., from Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A division of insects, considered by
some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as
belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have
narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of
the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those
which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also
Physopoda. See Thrips.
Thy`sa*nop"ter*an (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) One of the Thysanoptera.
Thy`sa*nop"ter*ous (?), a. Of
or pertaining to the Thysanoptera.
\'d8Thys`a*nu"ra (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) An order of wingless hexapod insects
which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the
body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises
the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails.
Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma,
and Podura.
Thys`a*nu"ran (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) One of the Thysanura. Also used
adjectively.
Thys`a*nu"rous (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
Thysanura.
Thys"be (?), n. [NL., fr. L.
Thisbe maiden beloved by Pyramus, Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A common clearwing moth (Hemaris
thysbe).
Thy*self" (?), pron. An
emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; --
used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou
thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no
other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without
thou, and in the nominative as well as in the
objective case.
Thyself shalt see the act.
Shak.
Ere I do thee, thou to thyself wast cruel.
Milton.
Ti"ar (?), n. [Cf. F.
tiare. See Tiara.] A tiara.
[Poetic]
Milton. Tennyson.
Ti*a"ra (?), n. [L., from Gr.
1. A form of
headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon,
the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and
erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims
turned over.
2. The pope's triple crown. It was at first a
round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown,
subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The
papal dignity.
Ti*a"raed (?), a. Adorned with,
or wearing, a tiara.
Tib"-cat` (?), n. A female
cat. [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
\'d8Tib"i*a (?), n.; pl.
Tibi\'91 (#). [L.]
1. (Anat.) The inner, or preaxial, and
usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb
below the knee.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The fourth joint of the
leg of an insect. See Illust. under
Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.
3. (Antiq.) A musical instrument of the
flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
Tib"i*al (?), a. [L.
tibialis, fr. tibia the shin bone; also, a
pipe or flute, originally made of a bone: cf. F.
tibial.] 1. Of or pertaining to a
tibia.
2. Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.
Tibial spur (Zo\'94l.), a spine
frequently borne on the tibia of insects. See Illust.
under Coleoptera.
Tib"i*al, n. (Anat.) A tibial
bone; a tibiale.
\'d8Tib`i*a"le (?), n.; pl.
Tibialia (#). [NL.]
(Anat.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which
articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the
astragalus in man and most mammals.
Ti*bic"i*nate (?), v. i. [L.
tibicinare.] To play on a tibia, or
pipe. [R.]
Tib"i*o- (?). A combining form used in
anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation
to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus,
tibiofibular.
Tib`i*o*tar"sal (?), a.
(Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to both to
the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal
articulation. (b) Of or pertaining to
the tibiotarsus.
Tib`i*o*tar"sus (?), n.; pl.
Tibiotarsi (. (Anat.)
The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the
leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of
the tarsus with the tibia.
Tib"rie (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The pollack. [Prov.
Eng.]
Tic (?), n. [F.]
(Med.) A local and habitual convulsive motion of
certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles
of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also
spasmodic tic.
Dunglison.
Tic douloureux (. [F., fr.
tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux
painful.] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face
ague. See under Face.
\'d8Ti*cal" (?), n. 1.
A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a
weight equal to 236 grains troy.
Malcom.
2. A money of account in China, reckoning at about
$1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.
Tice (?), v. t. [Aphetic form
of entice.] To entice.
[Obs.]
The Coronation.
Tice, n. (Cricket) A ball
bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the
wicket.
Tice"ment (?), n.
Enticement. [Obs.]
Tich"or*rhine (?), n. [Gr. (Paleon.) A
fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting
the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.
Tick (?), n. [Abbrev. from
ticket.] Credit; trust; as, to buy on,
or upon, tick.
Tick, v. i. 1. To go on trust,
or credit.
2. To give tick; to trust.
Tick, n. [OE. tike,
teke; akin to D. teek, G. zecke.
Cf. Tike a tick.] (Zo\'94l.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of large parasitic
mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle,
dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become
ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the
species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are
active and have at first but six legs. (b)
Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a
flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under
Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).
Tick bean, a small bean used for feeding
horses and other animals. -- Tick trefoil
(Bot.), a name given to many plants of the
leguminous genus Desmodium, which have trifoliate
leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by
which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of
sheep.
Tick, n. [LL. techa,
teca, L. theca case, Gr. Thesis.] 1. The cover, or
case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw,
feathers, hair, or other filling.
2. Ticking. See Ticking,
n.
Tick, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Ticked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Ticking.] [Probably of imitative
origin; cf. D. tikken, LG. ticken.]
1. To make a small or repeating noise by beating or
otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.
2. To strike gently; to pat.
Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.
Latimer.
Tick, n. 1. A quick, audible
beat, as of a clock.
2. Any small mark intended to direct attention to
something, or to serve as a check.
Dickens.
3. (Zo\'94l.) The whinchat; -- so called
from its note. [Prov. Eng.]
Death tick. (Zo\'94l.) See
Deathwatch.
Tick, v. t. To check off by means of a
tick or any small mark; to score.
When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I
compared each with the bill and ticked it off.
Dickens.
Tick"en (?), n. See
Ticking. [R.]
R. Browning.
Tick"er (?), n. [See
Tick.] One who, or that which, ticks, or
produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic
sounder, etc.
<-- 2. The heart. [Colloq.]
3. (a) A stock ticker. (b) A news ticker, similar to a stock
ticker, but used for printing news transmitted by wire.
Ticker tape Tape from or designed to be used in
a stock ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long. --
Stock ticker, an electro-mechanical information
receiving device connected by telegraphic wire to a stock
exchange, and which prints out the latest transactions or news on
stock exchanges, commonly found in the offices of stock brokers.
By 1980 largely superseded by electronic stock quotation
devices.
ticker tape parade A parade to honor a person, held
in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of
Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper
ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes
form the ticker tape originally thrown onto the parade when it
passed stockbrokers' offices in lower Manhattan, before stock
tickers became obsolete. -->
Tick"et (?), n. [F.
\'82tiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF.
estiquette, or OF. etiquet,
estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E.
stick. See Stick, n. &
v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick
credit.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the
like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token
of something. Specifically: --
(a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or
Local]
He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty
years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a
ticket on the school doors.
Fuller.
(b) A tradesman's bill or account.
[Obs.]
on ticket, on account;
whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See
1st Tick.
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress.
J. Cotgrave.
(c) A certificate or token of right of admission to
a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance;
as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat
ticket.
(d) A label to show the character or price of
goods.
(e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery
or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
(f) (Politics) A printed list of
candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations
by one party for election; a ballot. [U.S.]
The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four
votes.
Sarah Franklin (1766).
Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the
names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out. --
Split ticket, a ticket representing different
divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two
or more parties. -- Straight ticket, a ticket
containing the regular nominations of a party, without
change. -- Ticket day (Com.), the
day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when
the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one
stockbroker to another. [Eng.]
Simmonds. -- Ticket of leave, a license
or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at
large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his
sentence, subject to certain specific conditions.
[Eng.] Simmonds. -- Ticket
porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he
may be identified. [Eng.]
Tick"et, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ticketing.] 1. To distinguish
by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket
goods.
2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to
ticket passengers to California.
[U.S.]
<-- Ticketed. having a ticket, esp. a ticket for travel on a
carrier sucha as an airline. A term used to distinguish those
who have made a reservation for travel, but have not yet paid and
received their ticket, from those who have. "You have a
reservation, but you have not yet been ticketed." -->
Tick"et*ing, n. A periodical sale of ore
in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets
upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
Tick"ing (?), n. [From
Tick a bed cover. Cf. Ticken.] A
strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for
beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of
different colors, as white and blue; -- called also
ticken.
<-- p. 1507 -->
Tic"kle (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tickled
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tickling
(?).] [Perhaps freq. of tick
to beat; pat; but cf. also AS. citelian to tickle, D.
kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG.
chizzil\'d3n, chuzzil\'d3n, Icel.
kitla. Cf. Kittle, v. t.]
1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar
thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind
of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
Shak.
2. To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope.
Such a nature
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Which he treads on at noon.
Shak.
Tic"kle, v. i. 1. To feel
titillation.
He with secret joy therefore
Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
Spenser.
2. To excite the sensation of titillation.
Shak.
Tic"kle, a. 1. Ticklish; easily
tickled. [Obs.]
2. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
[Obs.]
The world is now full tickle, sikerly.
Chaucer.
So tickle is the state of earthy things.
Spenser.
3. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the
slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
[Obs.]
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a
milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off.
Shak.
Tic"kle-foot`ed (?), a.
Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. [Obs. &
R.]
Beau. & Fl.
Tick"len*burg (?), n. A coarse,
mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.
Tic"kle*ness (?), n.
Unsteadiness. [Obs.]
For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness.
Chaucer.
Tic"kler (?), n. 1.
One who, or that which, tickles.
2. Something puzzling or difficult.
3. A book containing a memorandum of notes and
debts arranged in the order of their maturity. [Com.
Cant, U.S.]
Bartlett.
4. A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from
casks. [Eng.]
Tic"klish (?), a. 1.
Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole
of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the
hand is not ticklish.
Bacon.
2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall
at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.
Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally
ticklish?
Barrow.
3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a
ticklish business.
Surely princes had need, in tender matters and
ticklish times, to beware what they say.
Bacon.
-- Tic"klish*ly, adv. --
Tic"klish*ness, n.
Tick"seed` (?), n.
[Tick the insect + seed; cf. G.
wanzensamen, literally, bug seed.] 1.
A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of
certain plants.
2. (Bot.) (a) Same as
Coreopsis. (b) Any plant of the
genus Corispermum, plants of the Goosefoot
family.
Tick"tack` (?), n. [See
Tick to beat, to pat, and (for sense 2) cf.
Tricktrack.] 1. A noise like that
made by a clock or a watch.
2. A kind of backgammon played both with men and
pegs; tricktrack.
A game at ticktack with words.
Milton.
Tick"tack`, adv. With a ticking noise,
like that of a watch.
Tic`po*lon"ga (?), n. [Native
name.] (Zo\'94l.) A very venomous viper
(Daboia Russellii), native of Ceylon and India; --
called also cobra monil.
Tid (?), a. [Cf. AS.
tedre, tydere, weak, tender.]
Tender; soft; nice; -- now only used in
tidbit.
Tid"al (?), a. Of or pertaining
to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and
falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal
waters.
The tidal wave of deeper souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares
Out of all meaner cares.
Longfellow.
Tidal air (Physiol.), the air which
passes in and out of the lungs in ordinary breathing. It varies
from twenty to thirty cubic inches. -- Tidal
basin, a dock that is filled at the rising of the
tide. -- Tidal wave. (a) See
Tide wave, under Tide. Cf. 4th
Bore. (b) A vast, swift wave caused by
an earthquake or some extraordinary combination of natural
causes. It rises far above high-water mark and is often very
destructive upon low-lying coasts.
<-- called in Japan tsunami. -->
Tid"bit` (?), n.
[Tid + bit.] A delicate or
tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.
[Written also titbit.]
Tid"de (?), obs.
imp. of Tide, v. i.
Chaucer.
{ Tid"der (?), Tid"dle
(?), } v. t. [Cf. AS.
tyderian to grow tender. See Tid.]
To use with tenderness; to fondle. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.]
Tide (?), n. [AS.
t\'c6d time; akin to OS. & OFries. t\'c6d,
D. tijd, G. zeit, OHG. z\'c6t,
Icel. t\'c6, Sw. & Dan. tid, and
probably to Skr. aditi unlimited, endless, where
a- is a negative prefix. \'fb58. Cf. Tidings,
Tidy, Till, prep.,
Time.] 1. Time; period;
season. [Obsoles.] \'bdThis lusty summer's
tide.\'b8
Chaucer.
And rest their weary limbs a tide.
Spenser.
Which, at the appointed tide,
Each one did make his bride.
Spenser.
At the tide of Christ his birth.
Fuller.
2. The alternate rising and falling of the waters
of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The
tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a
little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the
attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being
three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters
in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their
equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is
accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when
the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon
and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than
the usual tide, called the spring tide, as
represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third
quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of
the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller
tide than usual, called the neap tide.
flood
tide, and the reflux, ebb tide.
3. A stream; current; flood; as, a
tide of blood. \'bdLet in the tide
of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.\'b8
Shak.
4. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or
events; course; current.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Shak.
5. Violent confluence. [Obs.]
Bacon.
6. (Mining) The period of twelve
hours.
Atmospheric tides, tidal movements of the
atmosphere similar to those of the ocean, and produced in the
same manner by the attractive forces of the sun and moon. --
Inferior tide. See under Inferior,
a. -- To work double tides. See under
Work, v. t. -- Tide day, the
interval between the occurrences of two consecutive maxima of the
resultant wave at the same place. Its length varies as the
components of sun and moon waves approach to, or recede from, one
another. A retardation from this cause is called the
lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the
recurrence of high water is termed the priming of the
tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d
Lag. -- Tide dial, a dial to exhibit
the state of the tides at any time. -- Tide gate.
(a) An opening through which water may flow freely
when the tide sets in one direction, but which closes
automatically and prevents the water from flowing in the other
direction. (b) (Naut.) A place where
the tide runs with great velocity, as through a gate. --
Tide gauge, a gauge for showing the height of the
tide; especially, a contrivance for registering the state of the
tide continuously at every instant of time. Brande &
C. -- Tide lock, a lock situated between
an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or
river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass
either way at all times of the tide; -- called also
guard lock. -- Tide mill.
(a) A mill operated by the tidal currents.
(b) A mill for clearing lands from tide water.
-- Tide rip, a body of water made rough by the
conflict of opposing tides or currents. -- Tide
table, a table giving the time of the rise and fall of
the tide at any place. -- Tide water, water
affected by the flow of the tide; hence, broadly, the
seaboard. -- Tide wave, Tidal
wave, the swell of water as the tide moves. That
of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or
channels derivative. Whewell. --
Tide wheel, a water wheel so constructed as to be
moved by the ebb or flow of the tide.
Tide (?), v. t. To cause to
float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or
stream.
They are tided down the stream.
Feltham.
Tide, v. i. [AS. t\'c6dan to
happen. See Tide, n.] 1.
To betide; to happen. [Obs.]
What should us tide of this new law?
Chaucer.
2. To pour a tide or flood.
3. (Naut.) To work into or out of a
river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it
becomes adverse.
Tid"ed (?), a. Affected by the
tide; having a tide. \'bdThe tided Thames.\'b8
Bp. Hall.
Tide"less, a. Having no tide.
Tide"-rode` (?), a.
(Naut.) Swung by the tide when at anchor; --
opposed to wind-rode.
Tides"man (?), n.; pl.
Tidesmen (. A customhouse
officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of
the duties; a tidewaiter.
Tide"wait`er (?), n. A
customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from
merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties.
Swift.
Tide"way` (?), n. Channel in
which the tide sets.
Tid"ife (?), n. The blue
titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
Ti"di*ly (?), adv. In a tidy
manner.
Ti"di*ness, n. The quality or state of
being tidy.
Ti"ding (?), n. Tidings.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Ti"dings (?), n. pl. [OE.
tidinge, ti, tidinde,
from or influenced by Icel. t\'c6; akin to Dan.
tidende, Sw. tidning, G. zeung,
AS. t\'c6dan to happen, E. betide,
tide. See Tide, v. i. &
n.] Account of what has taken place, and
was not before known; news.
I shall make my master glad with these tidings.
Shak.
Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Goldsmith.
tidings is plural in form, it
has been used also as a singular. By Shakespeare it was used
indiscriminately as a singular or plural.
Now near the tidings of our comfort is.
Shak.
Tidings to the contrary
Are brought your eyes.
Shak.
Syn. -- News; advice; information; intelligence.
-- Tidings, News. The term
news denotes recent intelligence from any quarter; the
term tidings denotes intelligence expected from a
particular quarter, showing what has there betided. We
may be indifferent as to news, but are always more or
less interested in tidings. We read the
news daily; we wait for tidings respecting
an absent friend or an impending battle. We may be curious to
hear the news; we are always anxious for
tidings.
Evil news rides post, while good news
baits.
Milton.
What tidings dost thou bring?
Addison.
Tid"ley (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) (a) The wren.
(b) The goldcrest. [Prov. Eng.]
Tid*ol"o*gy (?), n.
[Tide + -logy.] A discourse
or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of
tides.
J. S. Mill.
Ti"dy (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
The wren; -- called also tiddy.
[Prov. Eng.]
The tidy for her notes as delicate as they.
Drayton.
Ti"dy, a. [Compar.
Tidier (?); superl.
Tidiest.] [From Tide time,
season; cf. D. tijdig timely, G. zeitig,
Dan. & Sw. tidig.] 1. Being in
proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy
weather. [Obs.]
If weather be fair and tidy.
Tusser.
2. Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate;
neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping
things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is
tidy; the apartments are well furnished and
tidy.
A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never.
Piers Plowman.
Ti"dy, n.; pl. Tidies
(. 1. A cover, often of tatting,
drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair,
the arms of a sofa, or the like.
2. A child's pinafore. [Prov.
Eng.]
Wright.
Ti"dy, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tidied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tidying.] To put in proper order; to
make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy
one's dress.
Ti"dy, v. i. To make things tidy.
[Colloq.]
I have tidied and tidied over and over
again.
Dickens.
Ti"dy*tips` (?), n.
(Bot.) A California composite plant (Layia
platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped
with white.
Tie (?), n.; pl.
Ties (#). [AS. t\'c7ge,
t, t\'c6ge. \'fb64. See Tie,
v. t.] 1. A knot; a
fastening.
2. A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as,
the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the
ties of allegiance.
No distance breaks the tie of blood.
Young.
3. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
Young.
4. An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores,
etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality
in any contest, as a race.
5. (Arch. & Engin.) A beam or rod for
holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse
timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
6. (Mus.) A line, usually straight,
drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or
under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or
closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same
pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.
7. pl. Low shoes fastened with
lacings.
Bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop
for a bale.
Tie, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tied (?) (Obs.
Tight (); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tying (?).] [OE.
ti, teyen, AS. t\'c6gan,
ti\'82gan, fr. te\'a0g, te\'a0h,
a rope; akin to Icel. taug, and AS. te\'a2n
to draw, to pull. See Tug, v. t., and cf.
Tow to drag.] 1. To fasten with a
band or cord and knot; to bind. \'bdTie the kine
to the cart.\'b8
1 Sam. vi. 7.
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law
of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and
tie them about thy neck.
Prov. vi. 20,21.
2. To form, as a knot, by interlacing or
complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in;
as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to
knot. \'bdWe do not tie this knot with an
intention to puzzle the argument.\'b8
Bp. Burnet.
3. To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.
In bond of virtuous love together tied.
Fairfax.
4. To hold or constrain by authority or moral
influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to
restrain; to confine.
Not tied to rules of policy, you find
Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
Dryden.
5. (Mus.) To unite, as notes, by a cross
line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under
them.
6. To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be
even with.
To ride and tie. See under Ride.
-- To tie down. (a) To fasten so as to
prevent from rising. (b) To restrain; to
confine; to hinder from action. -- To tie up,
to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or
action.
Tie, v. i. To make a tie; to make an
equal score.
Tie"bar` (?), n. A flat bar
used as a tie.
Tie"beam` (?), n. (Arch.)
A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of
principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall.
See Illust. of Timbers, under
Roof.
Gwilt.
Ti"er (?), n. One who, or that
which, ties.
Ti"er, n. [See Tire a
headdress.] A chold's apron covering the upper part of
the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.
[Written also tire.]
Tier (?), n. [Perhaps fr. OF.
tire, F. tire; probably of Teutonic origin;
cf. OHG. ziar\'c6 ornament, G. zier, AS.
t\'c6r glory, ti\'82r row, rank. But cf.
also F. tirer to draw, pull; of Teutonic origin. Cf.
Attire, v. t., Tire a headdress, but
also Tirade.] A row or rank, especially one
of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another;
as, a tier of seats in a theater.
Tiers of a cable, the ranges of fakes, or
windings, of a cable, laid one within another when
coiled.
Tierce (?), n. [F.
tierce a third, from tiers,
tierce, third, fr. L. tertius the third;
akin to tres three. See Third,
Three, and cf. Terce, Tercet,
Tertiary.] 1. A cask whose content
is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a
liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial,
gallons.
2. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a
hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are
packed for shipment.
3. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale.
See Mediant.
4. A sequence of three playing cards of the same
suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called
tierce-major.
5. (Fencing) A position in thrusting or
parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
6. (R. C. Ch.) The third hour of the
day, or nine a.m.; one of the canonical hours;
also, the service appointed for that hour.
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Tier*c\'82" (?), a. [F.]
(Her.) Divided into three equal parts of three
different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.
{ Tier"cel (?), Tierce"let
(?), } n. [OE. tercel,
tercelet, F. tiercelet, a dim. of (assumed)
tiercel, or LL. tertiolus, dim. fr. L.
tertius the third; -- so called, according to some,
because every third bird in the nest is a male, or, according to
others, because the male is the third part less than female. Cf.
Tercel.] (Falconry) The male of
various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the
goshawk.
Encyc. Brit.
Tierce"-ma`jor (?), n. [Cf. F.
tierce majeure.] (Card Playing)
See Tierce, 4.
Tier"cet (?), n. [F.
tercet. See Tercet.] (Pros.)
A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming
together.
Tie"-rod (?), n. A rod used as
a tie. See Tie.
\'d8Tiers` \'82`tat" (?). [F.]
The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the
commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and
as inferior to, the nobles and clergy.
tiers \'82tat a representation in the States-general
proportioned to their actual numbers had an important influence
in bringing on the French Revolution of 1789. Since that time the
term has been purely historical.
Tie"tick (?), n. The meadow
pipit. [Prov. Eng].
Tie"wig` (?), n. A wig having a
tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig
tied upon the head.
Wright. V. Knox.
Tiff (?), n. [Originally, a
sniff, sniffing; cf. Icel. a smell,
to sniff, Norw. tev a drawing in of
the breath, teva to sniff, smell, dial. Sw.
t\'81v smell, scent, taste.] 1.
Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
\'bdSipping his tiff of brandy punch.\'b8
Sir W. Scott.
2. A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight
altercation or contention. See Tift.
Thackeray.
Tiff, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tiffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tiffing.] To be in a pet.
She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph.
Landor.
Tiff, v. t. [OE. tiffen, OF.
tiffer, tifer, to bedizen; cf. D.
tippen to clip the points or ends of the hair, E.
tip, n.] To deck out; to dress.
[Obs.]
A. Tucker.
Tif"fa*ny (?), n. [OE.
tiffenay; cf. OF. tiffe ornament,
tiffer to adjust, adorn. See Tiff to
dress.] A species of gause, or very silk.
The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten
tiffanies.
Sir T. Browne.
Tif"fin (?), n. [Properly,
tiffing a quaffing, a drinking. See Tiff,
n.] A lunch, or slight repast between
breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word,
but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a
special sense.
Tiff"ish (?), a. Inclined to
tiffs; peevish; petulant.
Tift (?), n. [Cf. Norw.
teft a scent. See Tiff, n.]
A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift
with me as if you had newly come from church.
Blackwood's Mag.
Tig (?), n. 1. A game
among children. See Tag.
2. A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup,
generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the
table at convivial entertainment.
\'d8Ti*gel"la (?), n. [NL.,
from F. tige stem or stock.] (Bot.)
That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the
caulicle or radicle.
Ti*gelle" (?), n. [F.]
(Bot.) Same as Tigella.
Ti"ger (?), n. [OE.
tigre, F. tigre, L. tigris, Gr.
ti`gris; probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend
tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per.
t\'c6r; perhaps akin to E. stick, v.t.; --
probably so named from its quickness.] 1. A
very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris)
native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides
are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the
tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white.
When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and
strength. Called also royal tiger, and
Bengal tiger.
2. Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
As for heinous tiger, Tamora.
Shak.
3. A servant in livery, who rids with his master or
mistress.
Dickens.
4. A kind of growl or screech, after cheering;
as, three cheers and a tiger.
[Colloq. U.S.]
5. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining
sugar.
American tiger. (Zo\'94l.) (a)
The puma. (b) The jaguar. --
Clouded tiger (Zo\'94l.), a handsome
striped and spotted carnivore (Felis macrocelis or
F. marmorata) native of the East Indies and Southern
Asia. Its body is about three and a half feet long, and its tail
about three feet long. Its ground color is brownish gray, and the
dark markings are irregular stripes, spots, and rings, but there
are always two dark bands on the face, one extending back from
the eye, and one from the angle of the mouth. Called also
tortoise-shell tiger. -- Mexican
tiger (Zo\'94l.), the jaguar. --
Tiger beetle (Zo\'94l.), any one of
numerous species of active carnivorous beetles of the family
Cicindelid\'91. They usually inhabit dry or sandy
places, and fly rapidly. -- Tiger bittern.
(Zo\'94l.) See Sun bittern, under
Sun. -- Tiger cat (Zo\'94l.),
any one of several species of wild cats of moderate size with
dark transverse bars or stripes somewhat resembling those of the
tiger. -- Tiger flower (Bot.), an
iridaceous plant of the genus Tigridia (as T.
conchiflora, T. grandiflora, etc.) having showy
flowers, spotted or streaked somewhat like the skin of a
tiger. -- Tiger grass (Bot.), a
low East Indian fan palm (Cham\'91rops Ritchieana). It
is used in many ways by the natives. J. Smith (Dict. Econ.
Plants). -- Tiger lily. (Bot.)
See under Lily. -- Tiger moth
(Zo\'94l.), any one of numerous species of moths
of the family Arctiad\'91 which are striped or barred
with black and white or with other conspicuous colors. The
larv\'91 are called woolly bears. --
Tiger shark (Zo\'94l.), a voracious
shark (Galeocerdo maculatus ) more or
less barred or spotted with yellow. It is found in both the
Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Called also zebra
shark. -- Tiger shell
(Zo\'94l.), a large and conspicuously spotted
cowrie (Cypr\'91a tigris); -- so called from its
fancied resemblance to a tiger in color and markings. Called also
tiger cowrie. -- Tiger wolf
(Zo\'94l.), the spotted hyena (Hy\'91na
crocuta). -- Tiger wood, the variegated
heartwood of a tree (Mach\'91rium Schomburgkii) found
in Guiana.
Ti"ger-eye` (?), n.
(Min.) A siliceous stone of a yellow color and
chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for
ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See
Crocidolite.
Ti"ger-foot` (?), n.
(Bot.) Same as Tiger's-foot.
Ti"ger-foot`ed, a. Hastening to devour;
furious.
Ti"ger*ine (?), a. Tigerish;
tigrine. [R.]
Ti"ger*ish, a. Like a tiger;
tigrish.
Ti"ger's-foot` (?), n.
(Bot.) A name given to some species of
morning-glory (Ipom\'d2a) having the leaves lobed in
pedate fashion.
Tigh (?), n. [Perhaps akin to
tight.] A close, or inclosure; a
croft. [Obs.]
Cowell.
Tight (?), obs. p.
p. of Tie.
Spenser.
Tight, a. [Compar.
Tighter (?); superl.
Tightest.] [OE. tight,
thiht; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel.
, Dan. t\'91t, Sw.
t\'84t: akin to D. & G. dicht thick, tight,
and perhaps to E. thee to thrive, or to
thick. Cf. Taut.] 1.
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as,
tight cloth; a tight knot.
2. Close, so as not to admit the passage of a
liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship;
a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used
in this sense as the second member of a compound; as,
water-tight; air-tight.
3. Fitting close, or too close, to the body;
as, a tight coat or other garment.
4. Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
Clad very plain, but clean and tight.
Evelyn.
I'll spin and card, and keep our children
tight.
Gay.
5. Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man
tight in his dealings. [Colloq.]
6. Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; --
applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched
out.
7. Handy; adroit; brisk. [Obs.]
Shak.
8. Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.
[Slang]
9. (Com.) Pressing; stringent; not easy;
firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf.
Easy, 7.
Tight, v. t. To tighten.
[Obs.]
Tight"en (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tightened
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tightening.] To draw tighter; to
straiten; to make more close in any manner.
Just where I please, with tightened rein
I'll urge thee round the dusty plain.
Fawkes.
Tightening pulley (Mach.), a pulley
which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten
it.
Tight"en*er (?), n. That which
tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening
pulley.
Tight"er (?), n. A ribbon or
string used to draw clothes closer. [Obs.]
Tight"ly, adv. In a tight manner;
closely; nearly.
Tight"ness, n. The quality or condition
of being tight.
Tights (?), n. pl.
Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the
body and the legs.
Tig"lic (?), a. (Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid,
C4H7CO2H (called also methyl crotonic
acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from
croton oil (from Croton Tiglium) as a white
crystalline substance.
Ti"gress (?), n. [From
Tiger: cf. F. tigresse.]
(Zo\'94l.) The female of the tiger.
Holland.
Ti"grine (?), a. [L.
tigrinus, fr. tigris a tiger.]
1. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Resembling the tiger in
color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis
tigrina) of South America.
Ti"grish (?), a. Resembling a
tiger; tigerish.
Tike (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
A tick. See 2d Tick. [Obs.]
Tike, n. [Icel. t\'c6k a
bitch; akin to Sw. tik.] 1. A dog;
a cur. \'bdBobtail tike or trundle-tail.\'b8
Shak.
2. A countryman or clown; a boorish person.
Ti"kus (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
The bulau.
Til (?), prep. & conj. See
Till. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Til"bu*ry (?), n.; pl.
Tilburies (#). [Probably from
Tilburyfort, in the Country of Essex, in
England.] A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage,
without a top or cover. [Written also
tilburgh.]
\'d8Til"de (?), n. [Sp., fr. L.
titulus a superscription, title, token, sign. See
Title, n.] The accentual mark
placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish
words [thus, \'a4, ], indicating that, in
pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded
by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
Tile (?), v. t. [See 2d
Tiler.] To protect from the intrusion of the
uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
Tile, n. [OE. tile,
tigel, AS. tigel, tigol, fr. L.
tegula, from tegere to cover. See
Thatch, and cf. Tegular.] 1.
A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the
roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for
ornamental mantel works.
2. (Arch.) (a) A small slab of
marble or other material used for flooring. (b)
A plate of metal used for roofing.
3. (Metal.) A small, flat piece of dried
earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are
fused.
4. A draintile.
5. A stiff hat. [Colloq.]
Dickens.
Tile drain, a drain made of tiles. --
Tile earth, a species of strong, clayey earth;
stiff and stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.] --
Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt;
a tilery. -- Tile ore (Min.), an
earthy variety of cuprite. -- Tile red, light
red like the color of tiles or bricks. -- Tile
tea, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See Brick
tea, under Brick.
Tile, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tiling.] 1. To cover with
tiles; as, to tile a house.
2. Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
The muscle, sinew, and vein,
Which tile this house, will come again.
Donne.
Tile"-drain` (?), v. t. To
drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
Tile"fish` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A large, edible, deep-water food fish
(Lopholatilus cham\'91leonticeps) more or less thickly
covered with large, round, yellow spots.
Til"er (?), n. A man whose
occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
Bancroft.
Til"er, n. [Of uncertain origin, but
probably from E. tile, n.] A doorkeeper or
attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. [Written also
tyler.]
Til"er*y (?), n.; pl.
Tileries (#). [From Tile;
cf. F. tuilerie, fr. tuile a tile, L.
tegula.] A place where tiles are made or
burned; a tile kiln.
Tile"stone` (?), n. 1.
(Geol.) A kind of laminated shale or sandstone
belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
2. A tile of stone.
Til`i*a"ceous (?), a. [OE.
tilia the linden tree.] (Bot.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants
(Tiliace\'91) of which the linden (Tilia)
is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a
valuable fiber, as the jute.
Til"ing (?), n. 1. A
surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.
They . . . let him down through the tiling.
Luke v. 19.
2. Tiles, collectively.
Till (?), n. [Abbrev. from
lentil.] A vetch; a tare.
[Prov. Eng.]
Till, n. [Properly, a drawer, from OE.
tillen to draw. See Tiller the lever of a
rudder.] A drawer. Specifically: (a) A tray
or drawer in a chest. (b) A money drawer in a shop or
store.
Till alarm, a device for sounding an alarm
when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.
Till, n. 1. (Geol.)
A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination,
formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from
the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an
upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if
formed in the same manner.
2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
Loudon.
Till, prep. [OE. til, Icel.
til; akin to Dan. til, Sw. till,
OFries. til, also to AS. til good,
excellent, G. ziel end, limit, object, OHG.
zil, Goth. tils, gatils, fit,
convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See
Till, v. t.] To; unto; up to; as
far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly,
also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and
in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till
four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
He . . . came till an house.
Chaucer.
Women, up till this
Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.
Tennyson.
Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his
writings -- all through them till the very end.
Prof. Wilson.
Till now, to the present time. --
Till then, to that time.
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Till (?), conj. As far as; up
to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that;
that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause
following; until.
And said unto them, Occupy till I come.
Luke xix. 13.
Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to
God.
Jer. Taylor.
There was no outbreak till the regiment
arrived.
Macaulay.
when, or the time when, the proper
conjunction or conjunctive adverb begin when.
Till, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tilling.] [OE. tilen,
tilien, AS. tilian, teolian, to
aim, strive for, till; akin to OS. tilian to get, D.
telen to propagate, G. zielen to aim,
ziel an end, object, and perhaps also to E.
tide, time, from the idea of something
fixed or definite. Cf. Teal, Till,
prep..] 1. To plow and prepare for
seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate;
as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.
No field nolde [would not] tilye.
P. Plowman.
the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken.
Gen. iii. 23.
2. To prepare; to get. [Obs.]
W. Browne.
Till, v. i. To cultivate land.
Piers Plowman.
Till"a*ble (?), a. Capable of
being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.
Till"age (?), n. 1.
The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land
for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth
of crops.
2. A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated
land.
Syn. -- Cultivation; culture; husbandry; farming;
agriculture.
\'d8Til*land"si*a (?), n. [NL.
So named after Prof. Tillands, of Abo, in
Finland.] (Bot.) A genus of epiphytic
endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in
tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called
long moss, black moss, Spanish
moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender
pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the
branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing
mattresses.
Till"er (?), n. [From
Till, v. t.] One who tills; a
husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
Till"er, n. [AS. telgor a
small branch. Cf. Till to cultivate.] 1.
(Bot.) (a) A shoot of a plant, springing
from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
(b) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root
or stump.
2. A young timber tree. [Prov.
Eng.]
Evelyn.
Till"er, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Tillered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tillering.] To put forth new
shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk;
as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by
tillering. [Sometimes written
tillow.]
Till"er, n. [From OE. tillen,
tullen, to draw, pull; probably fr. AS.
tyllan in fortyllan to lead astray; or cf.
D. tillen to lift up. Cf. Till a
drawer.] 1. (Naut.) A lever of
wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side
to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large
vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances.
See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm,
1.
2. The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also,
sometimes, the bow itself. [Obs.]
You can shoot in a tiller.
Beau. & Fl.
3. The handle of anything. [Prov.
Eng.]
4. A small drawer; a till.
Dryden.
Tiller rope (Naut.), a rope for
turning a tiller. In a large vessel it forms the connection
between the fore end of the tiller and the steering
wheel.
{ Til"ley (?), n., Til"ley seed` (?) }. (Bot.)
The seeds of a small tree (Croton Pavana) common
in the Malay Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like
those of Croton Tiglium. [Written also
tilly.]
Till"man (?), n.; pl.
Tillmen (. A man who tills the
earth; a husbandman. [Obs.]
Tusser.
Til"lo*dont (?), n. One of the
Tillodontia.
\'d8Til`lo*don"ti*a (?), n. pl.
(Paleon.) An extinct group of Mammalia found
fossil in the Eocene formation. The species are related to the
carnivores, ungulates, and rodents. Called also
Tillodonta.
Til"let (?), n. A bag made of
thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods.
McElrath.
Til"low (?), v. i. See 3d
Tiller.
Til"ly-val`ly (?), interj., adv., or
a. A word of unknown origin and signification,
formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said
was reject as trifling or impertinent. [Written also
tille-vally, tilly-fally,
tille-fally, and otherwise.]
Shak.
\'d8Til"mus (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. (Med.)
Floccillation.
Tilt (?), n. [OE.
telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS.
teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde,
G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw.
t\'84lt, tj\'84ll, Dan. telt,
and ASThe beteldan to cover.] 1. A
covering overhead; especially, a tent.
Denham.
2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a
small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a
boat.
Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered
with canvas or other cloth. -- Tilt roof
(Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a
wagon.
Tilt, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tilting.] To cover with a tilt, or
awning.
Tilt, v. t. [OE. tilten,
tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt
unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to
vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G.
zelt, Icel. t\'94lt an ambling pace,
t\'94lta to amble. Cf. Totter.]
1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for
discharging liquor; as, to | | |